Is there someone with experience in chromatography column packing efficiency determination performed with techniques different from classic pulse HETP and frontal analysis?
The question was not relative to a specific type or dimension of a column. However , we are currently experiencing some troubles with the packing of a 30 cm diameter stain-steel column, packed with an RP-HPLC resin.
Farooq Wahab thank you very much for the article that I'll read carefully.
The problems we are encountering are of double species: 1) difficult to reach the pre-determined N/m specification (>10000 N/m) 2) Increasing of back pressure during the load that reaches above 40 bars and that brings sometime to a sudden crash of the bed with consequent loose of material in the breakthrough. While these may be common problems for a packing, this behavior appeared after several years where we had not problem at all. Apparently nothing has changed: the hardware is the same, all the spare parts are treated in the same way, the resin is the same, no modifications have been signaled by the vendor, etc. The modification of the behavior of the column is, at the moment, inexplicable.