Agilent Technologies 1290 Infinity User Manual page 51

Symptoms Observed with the Agilent 1260 Infinity HPLC
The presence of algae in the Agilent 1260 Infinity can cause the following to
occur:
• Increased system pressure caused by clogging of the inline filter. Algae
• Short lifetime of solvent filters (bottle head assembly). A blocked solvent
• Algae growth may also be the possible source for failures of the ball valves
Agilent 1290 Infinity Valve Drive and Valve Heads
deposits are barely visible on the stainless steel filter frit. Replace the frit if
the backpressure of the pump in purge mode (water, 2.5 mL/min) exceeds
20 bar.
filter in the bottle, especially when only partly blocked, is more difficult to
identify and may show up as gradient performance problems, intermittent
pressure fluctuations etc.
and other components in the flow path.
Using the Module
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