Heka Tech HTO

The sample, weighed out in silver cartridge is inserted into the pyrolysis reactor by the automated sample dispenser, Here the oxygen in the sample reacts with the carbon reactor filling at 1400° - 1500° C to form CO.
As the reactor contains no quartz parts, using a glass carbon reactor tube, no oxygen can be released from the tube material. A filter separates the reaction gases (H2; N2; CO ) in a separation column and the integration software calculates the % oxygen.
Isotope analysis follows by passing the separated reaction gasses via a suitable interface to the isotope mass spectrometer.