Agilent Intuvo Guard Chips

The Intuvo Guard Chip is an innovative solution that replaces guard columns and extends column lifetime. The Guard Chip is a simple, disposable chip that is easily installed and replaced in minutes. These chips prevent unwanted material from depositing on, and damaging, the head of the column by providing almost a meter of sample flowpath just before the Intuvo GC column. This protection eliminates the time adjustment associated with column trimming. With the Intuvo Guard Chips, you never have to trim a column again.

Most customer applications use Guard Chips to ensure column longevity. However, for some ultraclean applications and those that do not require column trimming, Intuvo Jumper Chips provide a direct flowpath. The Guard and Jumper Chips are inlet-dependent so versions are available for split/splitless and multimode inlets.