High Throughput Laboratory Equipment

Since the late 1990s, Symyx Technologies, Santa Clara, CA, USA, has offered commercial, high throughput catalyst screening equipment primarily designed for the polyethylene industry [4]. 

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However, many recent instruments are still not considered satisfactory, since professional developers in the field of high-throughput screening (HTS) want to use the full performance of the latest generation of robots and computers for automation. This results in new instrumental developments, like the possibility of reading not only 96, but 384 or even 1536 wells plates as well as DNA chips, very rapidly (in a minute or so) and repeatedly without any mechanical failures. Hence, in the eyes of company scientists developing new assays, many present-day instruments still correspond to an intermediate stage of development. For research laboratory scientists, on the other hand, the actual equipment offers excellent performance. 

Generation of organic solvent waste Short analysis time and high throughput Limited portability. Confined to the laboratory Applicable to early-warning and on-site monitoring Qualified personnel required Equipment expensive... 

The final disadvantage of SPC is its high cost and low throughput. A ChemScan is an expensive piece of laboratory equipment (approximately 170,000) and the cost for a traditional analysis with ChemChrome V6 is also relatively high (approximately 7.5 per sample). 

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