Dirty injection ports, liners, syringes, and contaminated carrier gas

These are harder to diagnose because the background spectra you see will depend on the contaminants. If the contamination problem is coming from the GC, but it is not septum or column bleed, try:

  • Cleaning the injection port

  • Replacing the injection port liner

  • Cleaning or replacing the syringe

  • Switching to a different source of carrier gas and/or replacing the gas traps

  • Replacing the carrier gas tubing with new (clean) tubing

 

See Also

The Agilent Technologies application note: Optimizing splitless injections on your GC for high performance MS analysis