Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2020
Organization: S.I.GROUP INDIA PVT LTD,NAVIMUMBAI
Really great
Application Area: Analysis of petrochemical & pharma samples
"High quality, better repeatability & reproducibility, very low detection value, faster analysis, maintenance free for years. User friendly software."
Status:
Advanced ReviewerMember since: 2020
Organization: Amity University
Great sensitivity, high resolution and easy to use
Application Area:Pesticide analysis and other enviromental samples
"The instrument (GC) is working well. I have analyzed lots of samples. I analyzed pesticides, PCBs, and PAHs in water and soil samples as per the APHA method. The performance of the column DB-5 is very good and separates the compounds as per the requirements."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2021
Organization: Product Safety Laboratory
We have always received great service from the supplier over many years of service.
Application Area:Analyze various chemicals in consumer products and cosmetics
"We have acquired multiple instruments from this supplier and have always received excellent service. The delivery, the installation, the familiarization with the instruments and the quality of the service were all excellent."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2021
Organization: Georgia Pacific Chemicals llc
Fantastic
Application Area:Analyses of Chemicals
"Love Agilent, always very helpful when we run into issues with our lab equipment!"
Status:
Advanced ReviewerMember since: 2019
Organization: Banasthali Vidyapith
High accuracy and more precise results.
Application Area:Residual pesticide analysis
"Easy to operate and handling having low cost operating system with high accuracy."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2021
Organization: UWI
GC-MS, great results allowing the identification of hundreds of metabolites.
Application Area:Metabolites analysis
"The machine was very performant in analysing hundreds of metabolites. We also have a good reliability, excellent accuracy and reliable identifications of the metabolites structures. When running the analysis, we were satisfied with the speed, the quality and the reliability of the machine. We are using GC d for the analysis of primary and secondary metabolites of fresh crops including hydrocarbons and volatile organic compounds. Our preference for the GC-MS is because it is a method of choice due to its easy operation, high speed, resolution, sensitivity, reproducibility and reliability. Compared to other chromatographic techniques, GC-MS is less complex and requires less maintenance and operating cost, and also lesser variables and components such as solvents, columns and operating pressure. GC coupled with MS or MS/MS offers more reliability and the larger library is available compared to LC or other chromatography that have no extended compounds libraries. Another advantage of GC is the carrier gas and helium is the most suitable because it is safe to use and has the benefit to give a very high resolution, compared to other gases, or liquids used in LC, knowing that the purity and flow of the carrier gas are crucial to achieve good separation and reproducible chromatograms. GC has also good advantage in separating metabolites since capillary columns widely adopted and used provide a more efficient separation."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2020
Organization: Alberta Agriculture
6890N GC has delivered excellent results for research projects .
Application Area:Analyze essential oil compounds in botanical extracts
"6890N GC is user friendly and it fits in our lab application well. It has been extensively used in our botanical extract analysis with focus on essential oil compound analysis. This GC is recognized as one of our mostly used instrument in our lab therefore it is worth the investment we spent for a long run."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2020
Organization: Tradall SA (Bacardi Group)
A pillar for the GC lab.
Application Area:Profiling aromatic compounds in natural matrix
"We have been using the product for several years now without any disruption of service. Reliable instrument under all aspects."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2020
Organization: Iowa State University
Very good!
Application Area:Separations
"It's a nice gas chromatograph. However, it's not as user-friendly as the 7890B. For example, you can't change some parameters while the runs are ongoing unlike with the 7890B. But overall, very good."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2019
Organization: SCWA
Great instrument and we are very happy with the service engineers.
Application Area:Environmental analysis
"We only use Agilent instruments in our lab. they are easy to use, and all new analysts that we hire and don't have prior experience with GC are able to learn very quickly the chemstation software."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2021
Organization: Contamac
GC is a staple for laboratories.
Application Area:Monomer analysis
"GC instrument is very easy to use and Agilent is one of the leading companies for chromotographic tech. They're very quick to reply when issues occur but the instrument is simple and general maintenence can be done by anyone in the lab."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2020
Organization: Icmr - National Institute Of Occupational Health
Excellent instrument.
Application Area:Pesticide residue analysis
"Highly sensitive, durable and provides excellent results in the field of pesticide residue analysis for organichlorin and synthetic pyrethroids. My instrument is 16 years old but performs like new equipment where sensitivity is concerned."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2017
Organization: Chemco Systems, Inc.
A perennial work horse.
Application Area:General analysis of monomers and reaction mixtures
"A work horse in any lab. Low requirement of maintenance and results are reproducible."
Status:
Expert ReviewerMember since: 2020
Organization: INTAS PHARMACEUTICALS LIMITED-ASTRON DIVISION
Agilent 6890N GC is worth purchasing!
Application Area:Pharmaceutical analysis
"Agilent 6890N GC; this instrument's performance is tremendous. This is a good value for money product which gives excellent reproducibility with very low maintenance. User can use both head space and liquid mode with full confidence and both modes generate great reproducible results."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2017
Organization: Chemco Systems, Inc.
One of my reliable work horses in the lab over many years.
Application Area:General GC analysis
"A work horse. Very good product over the years."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2019
Organization: SCD Probiotics
Great details and ease of use.
Application Area:Analyze metabolites in the sample
"We have been using this machine to perform our metabolomics research analysis."
Status:
Expert ReviewerMember since: 2017
Organization: Citrus & Allied Essences
The workhorse GC that just keeps on going
Application Area:Analyzing essential oils / flavor chemicals
"Agilent's 6890 GCs continue to be the workhorses of all the labs in my building (3 separate labs). They are sturdy, dependable, pretty easy to maintain and keep running well even past when Agilent stops servicing them."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2020
Organization: Iowa State University
Easy to use, robust system.
Application Area:Gas chromatography
"It is easy to use, robust, and never causes any problems. Consumables are readily available. Customer service is so so, extremely hard to contact via phone call."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2020
Organization: Iowa State University
Very robust.
Application Area:Inverse GC
"Very robust. Has been in our lab for more than a decade. Equipped with a GC-FID which is easy to maintain."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2020
Organization: Iowa State University
It's a great instrument.
Application Area:SPME with different types of analytes
"The instrument is user friendly. and very sensitive"
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2020
Organization: Iowa State University
High sensitivity and easy to use.
Application Area:Gas chromatography
"Easy to use. Simple software, able to save and load methods for gas chromatography. Reproducible results. FID connected, high sensitivity."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2020
Organization: Kemnoulli Nigeria limited
Agilent is good, but parts are scarce and expensive in my area.
Application Area:Hydrocarbon analysis
"I need more support from Agilent in my country - Nigeria"
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2020
Organization: universal pharmaceuticals pvt.ltd.,
Based on my previous experience, Agilent GC 6890N is a good product.
Application Area:Analytical separation in pharma industry
"Agilent instruments are easy to use, robust and accurate compared to other manufacturers products in the same area. After sales instrument service support from Agilent technology is good enough."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2020
Organization: Advansix
Very efficient equipment for our application.
Application Area:Analyse organic impurities in ammonium sulfate solution
"it is a very efficient piece of equipment for our application. It has good reproducibility, has easy to work with software and performs sample runs and data analysis. It's routine maintenance is not that difficult."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2019
Organization: Linde
A must for any analytical lab.
Application Area:Analyze impurities in raw materials
"The 6890 is very robust and durable. It will last you many years."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2019
Organization: Kar group
Best instrument.
Application Area:Gas treatment plant
"Agilent are the best, I like your products. Your products are very easy to use and easy to learn. I am appreciative of your gas chromatography equipment 6890N."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2019
Organization: Saudi Aramco
Great instrument and adding lots of fun to the lab.
Application Area:Simulated distillation
"Very effective equipment, easy to use, easy to maintain. For changing consumables, it is very easy to do all required changes such as columns, ferrules, septa, etc. Column installation is also easy. Detector cleaning is easy as well for skilled technician. The software is very user-friendly. Results are obtained in seconds. Data handling is a charm."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2019
Organization: GOVT. DEGREE COLLEGE, NAIDUPET
One of the major parts of my PhD.
Application Area:Fatty acid composition - tissues, foods, oils etc
"Very easy to use. User serviceable to most extent. Servicing in Hyderabad, India was good. Overall - Excellent."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2019
Organization: Bureau Veritas Canada
It is easy to use and valuable for our application.
Application Area:Natural gas analysis
"The instrument and software is quite easy to use and user friendly. The results were quite reproducible and accurate. It is easy to set up the method for your applications. Also it is quite easy to connect the columns to the detectors. Trouble shooting is also quite straight forward."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2019
Organization: TQM Consulting LLC
Highly reliable.
Application Area:Petrochemicals
"Used Agilent GC for decades. The 6890, like it's predecessors, is reliable, and supports use in a quality-based lab."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2007
Organization: LASA
Very strong good results.
Application Area:Organic volatile and semi volatile compounds, its an old model but so powerful tool for chemists
"6890 is an old model in Agilent's GC portfolio, but comparing this to the model N (with network connection), it has the same utility, and almost all the parts are the same. I have worked with many of these GCs with good results for many type of analytes and samples"
Status:
Advanced ReviewerMember since: 2017
Organization: Duwest
Good results
Application Area:quality assurance
"An easy to use, functional and quite precise instrument, with software that is quite comfortable for the determination of analytes."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2018
Organization: SGS Inspection Services Ltd
Good and excellent machine.
Application Area:Environmental sample
"Its a good machine, and there's less need for trouble shooting. User friendly machine."
Status:
Advanced ReviewerMember since: 2018
Organization: Cosmetic Technologies
Convenient to use!
Application Area:Analyze pesticides in CBD
"Very accurate with the support of training for doing the test and fixing any issues."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2013
Organization: sidpec
Great and Trusted Results
Application Area:Analysing petrochemical materials (Butene & Ethylene)
"Good precision and accuracy, easy use, durable and covers all types of applications"
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2017
Organization: InChem
Very sturdy instrument and easy to repair
Application Area:Toll manufacturer
"The instrument is older, however it can still get the job done. If maintained properly this instrument will last for years. The software associated with this instrument is very user friendly compared to the competition. I have another GC from Shimadzu, but the 6890 is my favorite. Be prepared to change liners and gold seals regularly."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2017
Organization: Angostura Limited
Backbone and workhorse of my fast paced QA/QC laboratory
Application Area:Analyse fusel oils in ethanol
"Extremely high accuracy and precision. Always passes proficiency testing schemes. Routine maintenance simple and user friendly. One of my favourite pieces of equipment to use."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2017
Organization: Food and Drug Administration
Great instrument, easy to use
Application Area:Analyze drugs
"Good response and sensitivity. Software is easy to use and effective for daily use."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2015
Organization: NBTY Inc
Lab-horse instrument.
Application Area:Testing of Residual Solvents
"Excellent instruments with high reliability and easy to use. Great performance."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2016
Organization: W2Fuel
High price, solid machine
Application Area:Natural products
"We have bought a new Agilent Technologies 7890A GC System with an Agilent Technologies 7693 Autosampler and OpenLab software. We are satisfied with the parameters of the GC. There is only one disadvantage (comparing with an old 6890 GC): 7890B has got two speed ventilator for the fast oven cooling: the higher speed of the ventilator is very noisy. Luckily we have bought another OpenLab licence for the Data analysis only. So we can evaluate the chromatograms in the quiet office contrary to the noisy laboratory. On the other hand, the analysis using 7890A GC is faster than with 6890 GC. The priority in our laboratory is high throughput, which is great. I recommend this GC machine."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2015
Organization: Inventure Renewables, Inc.
Great GC!
Application Area:Biofuel research
"Awesome instrument! Purchased used from a company called AIM in Colorado and their customer service for the instrument is excellent. "
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2015
Organization: Inventure Renewables, Inc.
Great instrument! Can't wait to upgrade the rest.
Application Area:Biofuel analysis
"Love this instrument. Upgraded from a 5890 to 6890 and now we want to do the same will all of our other 5890's. Purchased used from AIM in Colorado, and they have amazing service!! Will never purchase another instrument from anyone but them."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2014
Organization: Adhesives Research
The system is a work horse and provides quality data and results for our applications.
Application Area:Adhesives /coatings
"The system is a work horse and provides quality data and results for our applications. It is a very stable platform and performs consistently even though it is 15 years old."
Status:
Advanced ReviewerMember since: 2012
Organization: BBPOM Samarinda
Application Area:Analyze plants metabolites
"The price is moderate, and achievable to get. The after sales is quite difficult to get in my country, but perhaps its only because of my remote location. One thing that this product is lacking has to be the report mode. It's difficult to use and modify the original template."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2013
Organization: Materials Analytical Services, (MAS) LLC
Application Area:Environmental/Emission Testing
"This machine is a workhorse. We use it daily in tandem with Markes & PE Thermal desorbers."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2012
Organization: Lonza Biologics
Application Area:Biotechnology
"This is Mr Reliable among the GC equipment available on the market today. It has a very good range of inlet selections (eg. split/splitless/PTV /etc) and also offers the choice of a wide range of analysis (FID, MS, etc..). The sample holder can handle up to 80-100 samples and has a very good user interface that is the icing on the cake. I highly recommend to all!"
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2013
Organization: Seton Hall University
Application Area:Sample Preparation
"This is an easy to use product with various applications, especially when coupled to MS. For our labs purposes it is sufficient for analysis of peak area for optimization of different sample preparation techniques. It does have issues communicating with our auto sampler but is a very robust and versatile instrument. "
Status:
Expert ReviewerMember since: 2013
Organization: JRFAmerica
Application Area:Residue Chemistry And Forensic Analysis
"The system is very reliable and the result very reproducible. Cleaning of the system can take some time and can be difficult, but it is not a frequent necessity. The software is user friendly but it takes some time to get used to it. It is very useful for pesticide screening, especially in water. I have seen some good results. It is also very useful for Toxicological screening with an MSD or MS. I highly recommended for this function."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2013
Organization: Waynesburg University
Application Area:undergraduate laboratory
"This product is simple to use at an undergraduate level. The students are easily able to learn the principles of analytical analysis in our laboratory and apply this knowledge into learning how to analyze and interpret spectra."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2013
Organization: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Application Area:pesticides
"User-friendly software and hardware. MS is quite robust, and offers great inter-day reproducibility. The minor services such as ion source cleaning is pretty easy in this system."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2009
Organization: THE J. M. SMUCKER CO.
Application Area:Fatty Acid Profiles, Trans Fat Analysis
"Consistent, reliable performance with very low maintenance issues. Low downtime allows 24/7 operation in a production environment. Easy to use and routine maintenance is simple and straightforward (e.g. column changes, liner changes, etc.)."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2013
Organization: Gruentec
Application Area:Environmental
"This instrument is very useful and easy to use, I like the software, it is very robust. I use it for TPH analysis. I would recommend it to a colleague. The web services are also good, we get a lot of information there. "
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2013
Organization: Seton Hall University
Application Area:Analytical
"Though the instrument works very well when it is functioning properly, we always seems to have issues with the sensitivity and proper functioning for long periods of time. Other than that it is a simple, user friendly system which is great for quick and simple sample analysis."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2013
Organization: Michigan State University
Application Area:Organic chemical analysis
"This is a very effective product. Rugged and dependable. Has been used heavily for years and is still in good condition. It is very easy to use. It has many features (both EI and CI). It is a good price for the type of instrument that you receive. Overall, a very good product."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2013
Organization: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Application Area:VOCs in cigarette smoke
"This system allows me to sample hundreds of cigarette samples with little downtime. The system is set up for expandability to increase the number of analyses I can do. Agilent is very easy to work with and has fast response times for problems I can't figure out on my own. I would recommend this system and the 7890 GC to any analyst that wants a robust, easy to use GC system."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2011
Organization: NJMC
Application Area:Environmental
"I've been using this instrument since 2005, it is very reliable and stable for the analysis of environmental samples. The only issue I had was with benzene, it gave a wrong calibration in between 10 to 250 ppb range of concentration."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2013
Organization: Saint-Gobain Ceramics & Plastics Inc
Application Area:POLYMER ANALYSIS
"It is a very good instrument; we have had it for over 20 years. It is reliable and user friendly. Our main use for this instrument is helping us with identification."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2013
Organization: East Stroudsburg University
Application Area:Academia
"The Agilent 6890 GC/MS system has an intuitive user interface that makes it easy to setup and produces great results every time."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2010
Organization: Chem-Trend Inc
Application Area:Organic Chemicals
"This is our second GC-MS from Agilent. It has held up well with little problems. It has much higher sensitivity than the previous model but just as robust. We also use it with a pyrolysis unit from Quantum which we find useful but rather difficult to maintain and we're not as impressed as with our old Pyro Probe."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2013
Organization: Wilmington College
Application Area:College
"This GC product works very well for my purpose and I would recommend this to other laboratories as well. Good value for money."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2012
Organization: Forschungsgebiet Technologie der Energierohstoffe
Application Area:Gas analysis
"The instrument has many applications and is one of the best GC/GC-MS systems, compatible with many columns. However repair service is expensive and there are no free updates and only a small range of free after sales service."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2012
Organization: IUPUI
Application Area:Tobacco
"Excellent ease of use and integration with various autosamplers. Chemstation works great and is great to use with quantitation. We do sometimes get random unknown errors which stop sequences from running."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2012
Organization: Novelis
Application Area:Simulated distillation
"Chemstation software is well designed, easy to use, and can be used across platforms (LC etc). User maintenance is simple and modular systems can be shipped for repair. Response is usually rapid. Phone support available through a single number."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2010
Organization: Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Québec
Application Area:Analysis of oils
"Easy to operate, I would recommend it for headspace and/or pyrolis sample introduction. Software is easy, intuitive and there are good data treatment options, it is AMDIS compatible. Very good customer support, I would recommend a service contract."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2011
Organization: ADPEN labs
Application Area:Analysis for Pesticides
"Trouble free operation with little maintenance required. The software is user friendly and the manual is useful for troubleshooting."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2010
Organization: Takasago International Corporation, USA
Application Area:Flavors and food analysis
"Very easy to use with no detailed/complex instructions. Service sometimes takes a while for personnel/maintenance to reply to questions (3-5 days). Sometimes there is a problem with syringe error (getting stuck) or bad communication of software (Chemstation) with MSD."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2010
Organization: Lyondellbasell.com
Application Area:Refining
"GC/MS system is very user-friendly. Service and installation was timely and informatiive. Software upgrades (Chemstation) with library are well done and up to date."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2010
Organization: Mott Community College
Application Area:Environmental analysis
"Reliable and easy to use. Software has some limitations in transferring data to other Windows applications. Easily replaceable parts, useful for a fast GC. Software/hardware adaptable to many column configurations."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2010
Organization: Mott Community College
Application Area:Environmental analysis
"Reliable and easy to use. Software has some limitations in transferring data to other Windows applications. Easily replaceable parts, useful for a fast GC. Software/hardware adaptable to many column configurations."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2010
Organization: Liggett Group LLC
Application Area:Tobacco and smoke analysis
"Agilent provides the highest quality instruments in the industry and has superior customer service. However, in my opinion the Agilent software is antiquated and needs improvement."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2006
Organization: The Hartford
"Terrific workhorse instrument- after sales service can be spotty without service contract- technical support by phone is very good. Agilent pricing for single instrument sales is non-competitive, even for the better instrument."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2004
Organization: ShinEtsu Silicones of America
"Very easy to use, although physical access to columns is somewhat limited. Agilent technical support definitely needs improvement."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2003
Organization: Maybridge Chemicals
"Only a few minor gripes about design eg access for column and injector nuts. No problems with operation or reliability, solid workhorse, no problems with technical support (in UK)"
The Agilent 6890N GC has been made obsolete. This includes the G1530N, G1530N-EU, G1540N, and G1942N mainframes and all associated options. Agilent will provide guaranteed support for these products through July 31, 2015. Accessories for your 6890N GC can still be ordered. The 8890 GC system is the latest gas chromatograph from Agilent and is the replacement product for the 6890N.