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High-Speed Amino Acid Analyzer LA8080 AminoSAAYA

High-Speed Amino Acid Analyzer LA8080 AminoSAAYA

Developed with the user in mind, the AminoSAAYA offers easy and comfortable operability while maintaining the reliability and stability of Hitachi’s legacy amino acid analyzers.

Features

Ergonomic Design

Designed from the perspective of the user, the AminoSAAYA’s daily workflow, movements, and operational requirements are extremely simplified.

The height of the reagent setup unit accommodates better accessibility. Daily tasks such as reagent replacement, sample setup, and maintenance are made easy and can all be done from a standing position (the work requiring a half-sitting position has been minimized).

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Space-saving compact design

This new design resulted in a unit with a footprint that is 30% less than the previous models. In addition, this unit is designed to be placed on a standard laboratory benchtop.

The use of Hitachi’s highly reliable and stable post-column Ninhydrin method ensures compatibility with methods run on previous models (L-8800/L-8900).

The reliability and stability cultivated over many years have been maintained in this new system. The analysis methods are inherited from previous models, and the basic analytical conditions, columns (packing materials), and reagents that have been in use can also be used without making any changes.

Select the analysis method (column, reagent, and analytical conditions) depending on your required analysis (Protein Hydrolysates (PH) or Physiological Fluids (PF)).
Commercially available buffer solutions and reaction reagents (dedicated reagents) can be used without preparation.
Unstable Ninhydrin reagents usually require refrigeration. However, with the Hitachi amino acid analyzer, the two solutions are mixed immediately before the derivatization reaction. Therefore, there is no need for refrigeration.

Data

Analysis Example: STANDARD ANALYSIS COLUMN (Protein Hydrolysate analysis method)

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Specifications

System performance (by protein hydrolysate analysis method)

Analysis time Approx. 30 minutes (Net)
Resolution Thr-Ser、Gly-Ala、Ile-leu, more than 1.2
Reproductively of the peak retention time RSD 0.5% or less (Ala peak)
RSD 0.3% or less (Arg peak)
Reproductively of the peak area RSD 1.0% or less (Gly, His peak)
Detection limit 2.5 pmol (S/N = 2 at Asp peak)

System performance (by physiological fluid analysis method)

Analysis time Approx. 110 minutes (Net)
Resolution Thr-Ser、Gly-Ala、Ile-leu, more than 1.2
Reproductively of the peak retention time RSD 0.5% or less (Ala peak)
RSD 0.3% or less (Arg peak)
Reproductively of the peak area RSD 1.5% or less (Gly, His peak)
Detection limit 8pmol(S/N = 2 at Asp peak)

Analyzer

Column Size: 4.6 mm ID × 60 mm *
Resin: Hitachi custom ion exchange resin
Pump Flow rate setting range: 0.001-1.000 mL/min
Discharge pressure: 0 - 34 MPa
Gradient elution method with 6 solutions
Autosampler Injection method: Direct injection method
Sample vial capacity: 1,500 µL
No. of vials accommodated:120(with optional cooling unit installed: 100)
Sample injection volume: 0.5 - 100 µL
Column oven System: Peltier
Temperature setting: 20 - 90 °C (in 1 °C steps)
Reaction unit System: Electronic heating
Temperature setting: 50 - 140 °C (in 1 °C steps)
Detector Spectrophotometer: Aberration-corrected
concave diffraction grating
Wavelength: 570 nm, 440 nm

Others

Dimensions (excluding PC) 700 (W) × 600 (D) × 850 (H) mm
Temperature range 15 - 35 °C
Power supply 100, 115, 220, 230, 240 V ± 10 V, 800 VA, 50 or 60 Hz
Nitrogen gas Nitrogen gas source must be prepared.

* Standard column

Videos

Features of AminoSAAYA

Brief presentation of LA8080 AminoSAAYA: its compactness, ease of use and reliability.

Video: Features of AminoSAAYA

The product story

Masahito Ito, Ph.D., an engineer of Optics Design Department, talks about features of LA8080.

Video: The product story

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