Hardware manual

1-2 Agilent 7500 Series ICP-MS Hardware Manual
1Overview
Instrument Components
This section describes the instrument components, starting with a general
overview of the operating principles of the Agilent 7500.
The general system consists of the following instruments. The auto sampler
and the water chiller are optional.
1 ICP- MS Instrument Agilent 7500 ICP- MS
2 MassHunter Workstation
(or ChemStation)
MassHunter Workstation (or ChemStation)
controls the Agilent 7500 ICP- MS, acquires
data, and analyzes the acquired data.
3 Printer Printer outputs the analysis results.
4 Rotary Pump One or two rotary pumps are used depending
on the options ordered.
The rotary pump is used as the backing pump
for the turbomolecular pump. It is also used
to pump the interface chamber in analysis
mode.
The electric power for the pump is supplied
from the Agilent 7500. MassHunter
Workstation (or ChemStation) controls the
pump’s ON/OFF control.
5 Autosampler MassHunter Workstation (or ChemStation)
controls the autosampler. For more
information, refer to the autosampler
manual.
6 Water Chiller The water chiller supplies the cooling water
to cool the Peltier cooler (spray chamber
cooler), the sampling cone, the skimmer cone,
the RF amp and the work coil. For more
information, refer to the water chiller
manual.