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US 8,562,837 B2Granted
Backflush methods and devices for chromatography
AssigneePerkinElmer Health Sciences, Inc.
InventorAndrew Tipler
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Abstract
Certain embodiments described herein are directed to chromatography systems that include a microfluidic device and that implement one or more methods to direct sample to a desired fluid flow path. The methods can be used to backflush a sample to a desired fluid flow path to select certain analytes within a sample.
Claims8
A method of modulating flow of a fluid in a chromatography system including a microfluidic device fluidically coupled to an injector, the method comprising:
- controlling fluid pressure of the system to permit a sample to flow from the injector and into the microfluidic device and to a first fluid flow path and a second fluid flow path each fluidically coupled to the microfluidic device at a separate outlet port of the microfluidic device;
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- altering the pressure of the system to reverse the flow of the sample in at least one of the first fluid flow path and the second fluid flow path to backflush sample in the fluid flow path where the pressure is reversed.
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