WATERS has a good name, and many chromatographers are using it. What exactly is your targeted compound, monoamine?

For the estimation of monoamines through HPLC-ECD is good option. Waters provide fully equipped instrument costing around 22-25K US$. Shimadzu offers same functions with advanced ECD detector around 35-38K US$. Agilent will cost your around in between of these two. We are about to purchase the same configuration of waters.

I hope you can get the exact cost of instrument by simply asking them budgetary quote of the desired instrument from Waters, Shimadzu, Perkin-Elmer, Agilent and others as well.

I will recommend the purchase of the ECD detector if you have other its utility in broader way. Otherwise fluorescence detector will serve you same for monoamine analysis. We are having the similar estimation using HPLC-FD and now we are switching over to HPLC-ECD for the better sensitivity of analysis.

I hope this information would be helpful for you.

Good luck.

Try: Ingenieria Analitica s.l.

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They supply ALEXYS HPLC/ECD system from Antec. They have a summary of what can be achieved @ http://www.myantec.com/support/tutorials/electrochemical-detection

Also if you want to use Eicom product their European office is based in Ireland.

Europe Phone +353 1 902 2700

Dear Sir,

we can sell to You a fylly functional system for that purpose second hand for a very good price. If You are interested please write: [email protected]

Yours

Krum Bardarov

What sensitivity do you need ? For high sensitivity you may need a Coulometric Detector. Brand name for the HPLC doesn't really matter.

Ask for ESA detectors. the hpls pump could be any brand

Hi,

We have a HPLC-ECD from Eicom and it is working fine. The customer support is excellent. I strongly recommend this system.

http://www.eicom-usa.com/HTEC-500.html