Withdrawing of representative and reliable microsamples down to 1/100th mg
is far from trivial, especially for extreme conditions such as high tempera
ture and high pressure conditions or very corrosive media. The new Rapid On
-Line Sampler-injector presented herein was designed and set-up to largely
extend sampling capabilities in hazardous media. It is largely used in our
laboratory to measure vapour-liquid equilibria. It has a lot of application
s, both in production (process control in petroleum, chemical. nuclear plan
ts, etc.) and academic and industrial researches and development (laborator
y instruments, pilot plants...).