A new configuration for coupling purge-and-trap/cryogenic focusing/capillary column gas chromatography with splitless injection mode

A new configuration for coupling a purge-and-trap unit to a capillary column gas chromatograph via a cryogenic focusing interface has been developed. In this configuration, the precolumn of the cryogenic focusing interface was inserted through the septum of a split/splitless injection port where it served as both sample transfer and carrier gas supply lines. The injection port of the gas chromatograph was modified by plugging the carrier gas and the septum purge lines. This configuration allowed for the desorption of analytes at high flow rates while maintaining low, analytical-column flow rates which are necessary for optimum capillary column operation. The capillary column flow rate is still controlled by the column backpressure regulator. Chromatograms of purgeable aromatics exhibited improved resolution, especially for early eluting components compared to those obtained by direct liquid injection using the normal splitless injection mode. Quantitative sample transfer to the analytical column afforded excellent linearity and reproducibility of compounds studied.     

Stability test and improvement of hydrogen analyzer with trace reduction detector

We previously developed an analyzer able to detect hydrogen concentrations of less than 50 cm3/1000 m3. The analyzer uses a carrier gas purifier and a low temperature separation column to remove impurities preventing measurement of low concentrations from the carrier and sample gases. It uses a trace reduction detector with a mercuric oxide bed to detect the concentration of hydrogen based on the reduction reaction of mercuric oxide with hydrogen. We have now evaluated the performance of the analyzer by carrying out a series of tests that measured the spectrum peak and the retention time. We used three sample gases with hydrogen concentrations of 5, 20, and 50 cm3/1000 m3 in nitrogen dilution gas. The measured peak was stable (it was within a relative standard deviation of less than 10%), and there was a linear relationship between the peak and hydrogen concentration. However, the retention time gradually shortened as the measurements were repeated. The shortening was reduced by warming the low temperature separation column used in the analyzer; it was not observed when we used a hydrogen sample gas diluted by helium instead of nitrogen. Using nitrogen as a dilution gas apparently shortens the retention time. We thus added an MS-5A separation column and a thermal conductivity detector. The nitrogen and hydrogen in the sample/carrier gas are separated, and the nitrogen is efficiently removed by switching the pass line to a release line after the hydrogen has been sent to the low temperature separation column. An analyzer using this "after-cut method" was able to stably measure infinitesimal hydrogen concentrations and was not affected by nitrogen in the sample gas.     

Candidate EPA, NIOSH method for determining carbon disulfide in air with capillary gas chromatography by orthogonal design

This paper describes a candidate NIOSH EPA method for the determination of carbon disulfide in the air of workplaces with capillary gas chromatography using an orthogonal design. This method is designed to replace the packed column of the NIOSH method with a capillary column. The first part of this work concerned the setup of the method, particularly the choice of chromatographic parameters and finding their main favorable working ranges. The second part, using the statistical method orthogonal design, focused on optimizing the GC conditions, which were: column temperature, T(c) = 90 degrees C; injector temperature, T(i) = 140 degrees C; U section detector temperature, FPDU = 160 degrees C; L section detector temperature, FPDL = 210 degrees C; flow rate of carrier gas, F(c) = 20 cm/s; split ratio = 1/70; and injection volume = 1 microL. The quality control test showed that the coefficient of intra-day variation (CV) was 2.21%. A good logarithm linear correlation between the standard solutions and their peak areas was obtained. In general, the method reported here seems a valid candidate for a NIOSH EPA method due to its high precision and accuracy.     

Alltech集束毛细管柱和常规毛细管柱的比较

对集束毛细管气相色谱柱的色谱性能,如流速对柱效的影响、柱温对柱效的影响、柱容量等进行了考察,并将其对典型火炸药成分ＤＮＴ,ＴＮＴ的分离与常规毛细管气相色谱柱进行了比较。结果表明,集束毛细管气相色谱柱综合了填充柱与石英毛细管气相色谱柱之优点,弥补了二者的不足,是一种柱容量较大且分离效能好、可以在高载气流速下操作的新型气相色谱柱。     

改变相比/顶空气相色谱法测定变压器油中溶解气体的分配常数

采用改变相比/顶空气相色谱法测定了甲烷、乙炔、乙烯、乙烷和丙烷在变压器油中的分配常数。顶空瓶中的气体样品经石英毛细管送到气相色谱仪的六通进样阀样品管中,然后进行分离和定量。采用标准曲线法定量,通过测定5个不同相比时轻烃组分的顶空浓度,计算顶空浓度倒数与相比之间的线性回归方程,测定了20 ℃和50 ℃时烃类气体在变压器油中溶解气体的分配常数。除甲烷外,计算所得的分配常数与文献值基本吻合,油中溶解气体浓度的实验值与实际值之间的相对误差小于4.14%,表明用此方法可以测定不同温度下变压器油中溶解气体的分     

Note on the Net Retention Volume in Chromatography with a Real Gas as a Carrier

The problem of the calculation and interpretation of the net retention volume with a real gas as carrier is revisited. The properties of the carrier are described by a first order virial equation of state. The net retention volume of a solute is related to the mean flow rate of the carrier, therefore determination of the mean flow rate of a real gas carrier is reviewed. It is shown that the mean flow rate cannot be calculated from the mean column pressure. With a real gas carrier the local capacity factor depends on the local pressure of the real gas. The basic relationship between the net retention volume and the function describing this pressure dependence is also reviewed. Precise formulae as well as practical approximations are presented for the calculation of the mean flow rate, of the mean column pressure, and of a representative pressure related to the mean capacity factor.     

改性γ-Al2O3微填充柱色谱分析氢同位素

使用Cr2O3改性后的γ-Al2O3微填充色谱柱,分析了He、H2、HD、D2混合气体.结果表明,经改性后的γ-Al2O3柱对氢同位素分析的谱图在峰型、保留时间、柱效等方面明显优于未经改性的γ-Al2O3柱.在柱温77.4 K、氖载气流速30 mL/min、进样量5~100 μL条件下,氢同位素各组分线性关系良好,谱峰...     

Sampling and analysis of flue gases from a plasma incinerator

A system is described for monitoring flue gases from a plasma incinerator for polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polychlorinated dibenzodioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans. The system is composed of three basic units: sampler/preconcentrator, gas chromatograph and mass-selective detector. The sampler operates by solid sorbent trapping and thermal desorption. The use of two adsorbers allows sampling at a high flow rate (～1 1 min^?1) and subsequent capillary gas chromatographic analysis without the need for cold traps. A sample trapped on the first adsorber is thermally desorbed and transferred by a carrier stream of 40 cm³ min^?1 to a second smaller adsorber and retrapped. It is then thermally desorbed and injected into the capillary column by a carrier gas at an appropriate flow rate. A sequential valve-minder activates the electric actuators of the two six-port valves used in the design and also controls the power required for heating the adsorbers. Operation of the sampler is automated and is initiated by a single push-button switch. In simulation, the system allowed the separation of the major compounds of interest from possible interferences in <15 min and afforded unambiguous identification of the hazardous compounds and their quantification. For a sample volume of 20 1, the minimum detectable concentration of PCBs is 25–50 ng m^?3.     

Evaluation of split/splitless operation and rapid heating of a multi-bed sorption trap used for gas chromatography analysis of large-volume air samples

The effects of split-flow operation and rapid trap heating on injection-plug widths from an electrically heated, microscale, multibed sorption trap were evaluated. The sorption trap has been designed to quantitatively collect volatile organic compounds from large-volume vapor samples and inject them into a gas chromatograph. Previous trap designs resulted in injection-plug widths of typically a second or more, and this significantly degraded chromatographic resolution, particularly for early-eluting sample components and for high-speed separations. Injection-plug widths are determined by the heating rate of the trap during sample desorption and the volumetric flow rate of carrier gas through the trap. The effects of the heating rate of the trap and carrier gas velocity through the trap on the injection-plug widths of pentane, octane, and undecane were studied. Carrier gas velocity through the trap was increased by splitting the flow coming from the trap between the column and a vent. This decreases transport time from the trap to the column, and thus decreases injection-plug widths. The heating rate for the trap was increased by increasing the applied voltage in the range from 4 to 30 V. Increasing the heating rate decreases the time required to desorb the analytes from the sorbent bed, thus decreasing injection-plug width. Injection-plug widths as small as 89, 210, and 520 ms were obtained in the split mode with very fast heating rates for n-pentane, noctane, and n-undecane, respectively. The effect of split ratio on resolving power, peak height, and peak width was also evaluated.     

Dual Adsorber-Capillary Column System for Gas Chromatographic Analysis of Air Samples

Abstract

An interface which allows thermal desorption and subsequent capillary gas chromatographic analysis of air samples is described. A small solid-sorbent trap is positioned between the sampling tube and capillary column. A sample thermally released from the sampling tube is transferred by a carrier gas at high flow rate to the trap and retained. From there it is again thermally released and transferred to the capillary column by carrier gas at a low flow rate, as required by capillary GC. The transfer and injection steps are effected by means of externally placed solenoid valves. The performance of the system depends on the desorption temperature and time allowed for transfer of the sample between the two adsorbers and the column. These parameters are programmable and can be changed to suit the requirements of a particular analysis. The system allows the analysis of sub-parts-per-billion concentrations of organic compounds in a comparatively simple and reproducible manner. Operation of the system does not require cryogenic cooling of either the trap or the GC oven. Chromatograms of a variety of air samples are presented and discussed.     

固相萃取-气相色谱-质谱法测定利多卡因代谢物单乙基甘氨酰二甲苯胺的血药浓度

建立了固相萃取-气相色谱-质谱(GC-MS)测定利多卡因代谢物单乙基甘氨酰二甲苯胺(MEGX)血药浓度的方法。血清中的MEGX采用固相萃取小柱萃取、GC-MS测定。色谱条件为：HP-5MS毛细管柱(15 m×0.25 mm×0.1 μm),初始柱温100 ℃,保持1 min后以40 ℃/min速率升温至200 ℃,保持0.5 min;进样口温度250 ℃;分流进样,分流比1∶1,进样量2 μL;载气为氦气,流量为1.0 mL/min。质谱条件为:离子源温度230 ℃,电子轰击电离,电子能量70 eV,选择离子检测（m/z 58(MEGX)、 m/z 86(普鲁卡因,内标)）。结果表明,MEGX在血清中的浓度在1.562～25 ng/mL范围内的线性关系良好,相关系数0.9981,最低检测限为0.5 ng/mL,不同浓度MEGX的萃取回收率在80.1%～85.7%之间。实验证明该方法快速、准确,选择性好,灵敏度高,适合用于血清中微量MEGX的测定。     

Analysis of Malodorous Sulfur Gases and Volatile Organometalloid Compounds in Landfill Gas Emissions Using Capillary Gas Chromatography with Programmed Temperature Vaporization Injection and Atomic Emission Detection

Volatile compounds containing Group V and Group VI elements in landfill gases are of concern as a source of toxic pollutants and unpleasant odors. Conventional analytical techniques for these compounds e.g. ICP-MS, ICP-AES are complicated, expensive and time consuming. The use of a simple programmed temperature vaporization injection (PTV) technique coupled to gas chromatography with atomic emission detection (GC-AED) has been successfully demonstrated to identify compounds containing arsenic, antimony, and sulfur in landfill gas. With an adapted PTV injection system (using a combination of a ten-port and a six-port Valco valves), problems associated with AED discharge tube damage due to high carrier gas flow rate during sample loading can be overcome. The gas samples generated from both a laboratory biowaste digester and a domestic landfill site were characterized using these techniques. Large sample gas volumes were adsorbed onto a cooled sorbent trap containing Porapak Q, followed by rapid liberation onto a porous layer open tubular column (PLOT) using programmed thermal desorption. Arsenic and antimony were also detected in the landfill leachate collected from the same landfill site using hydride generation-atomic absorption spectrometry (Hy-AAS). The efficiency of different traps has also been compared.     

Rapid,automatic, high-precision method for micro,ultramicro, and trace determinations of sulfur

Samples are burned in a Carlo Erba 1106 elemental analyzer over copper oxide with oxygen, injected into the carrier gas. Combustion gases are reduced with copper. Water is absorbed, and sulfur dioxide is separated from carbon dioxide and nitrogen in a very short column of Porapak QS. Sample size is upt ot 0.7 mg, one determination takes 5 min, and the sampler takes up to 196 samples. It can be continuously loaded, and the instrument can be left to work automatically overnight. For the micro determination, helium is the carrier gas, and sulfur dioxide is measured with a thermal conductivity detector. The standard deviation of 18 analyses of pure organic compounds was 0.0446% S. The detection limit is 0.5 μg S, or about 0.1% S in a normal 0.5-mg sample. For ultramicro and trace determination, nitrogen is the carrier gas, and the measurement is made with an electron capture detector. The detection limit is 0.002 μg S, or about 0.0004% (4 mg kg^?1 S) in a normal 0.5-mg sample.     

Flow regime at ambient outlet pressure and its influence in comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography

With method development in one-dimensional GC already being a tedious task, developing GC x GC methods is even more laborious. The majority of the present GC x GC applications are derived from previously optimised 1D-GC methods, from which especially the carrier gas flow settings are copied. However, in view of the high pressure inside the first-dimension column (high flow resistance of the narrow-bore second-dimension column), diffusion in the first column is much slower than in 1D-GC. Proper optimisation of the column combination and the carrier gas flow can considerably improve separations in GC x GC. To assist in the process of selecting column dimensions and flow rate optimization, we have developed a computer programme, based on Excel, that enables quick and simple calculation for all types of column combinations. The programme merely needs column dimensions and carrier gas type as input parameters and calculates all resolution and velocity parameters of the GC x GC separation by using flow rate and plate height equations. From the calculations a number of interesting conclusions can be drawn. As an example, the calculations clearly show that the majority of column combinations reported up till now have been operated at a far from optimal flow -- and, consequently, a far from optimal resolution. Probably even more important is the conclusion that the majority of column combinations used so far, i.e. those with 100 microm I.D. second-dimension columns, are not necessarily the best choice for GC x GC.     

Direct injection of large sample volumes into capillary columns with packed column injector

A direct injection method for large volume samples which avoids severe tailing of the solvent peak has been developed using a packed column injector (up to 100 μl) leading into an ordinary capillary column (0.3 mm i.d.). Modifications are made to the cooler zones of the inlet port and on the carrier gas flow control system. This injection technique is based on the effective use of phase soaking and cold trapping using a retention gap. The large volume of solvent vapor is rapidly purged out of the injector with a higher flow of carrier gas while the solutes trapped at the head of the column are subsequently analyzed with another optimum flow rate. The proposed carrier gas flow regulation system is also compared with conventional split/splitless injection methods.     

The rapid identification of drug metabolites using capillary liquid chromatography coupled to an ion trap mass spectrometer

Capillary liquid chromatography (LC) using a 320 microns column and a flow rate of 10 microL/min has been coupled to an ion trap mass spectrometer using electrospray ionisation (ESI) to enable the rapid and effective identification of metabolites in urine, following oral administration of a novel human neutrophil elastase inhibitor, GW311616. Metabolites were identified from their mass (MS) spectra and tandem (MS/MS) mass spectra using minimal sample (1 microL of urine) and no sample pretreatment. Sensitivity assessment has shown that both molecular weight and structural information is obtainable on as little as 5 pg of compound, making the capillary LC/ion trap system as described an ideal analytical tool for the detection and characterisation of low level metabolites in biofluids (particularly when sample volume is limited). This level of detection was unattainable using a triple quadrupole mass spectrometer operating in full-scan mode, although 200 fg on column was detected using selected reaction monitoring target analysis.     

气相色谱-质谱法测定氯氮平及其去甲基代谢物

建立了测定人血清中氯氮平及其去甲基代谢物的柱前衍生化气相色谱－质谱选择离子监测的分析方法。以三氟乙酸酐作酰化剂,对衍生化条件和样品预处理方法实施了优化。氯氮平和去甲氯氮平的线性范围为１～１２８μｇ／Ｌ,最低检测浓度：氯氮平为０．１μｇ／Ｌ,去甲氯氮平为０．２μｇ／Ｌ,两者的回收率均大于８３％,相对标准偏差都小于１０％。将所建立的方法应用于服用细胞色素氧化酶Ｐ４５０１Ａ２抑制剂前后低剂量氯氮平的药代动力学自身对照试验中,结果显示氯氮平的代谢水平明显受Ｐ４５０１Ａ２活性的影响。     

Application of the radioactive ionisation detector to the determination of permanent gases by gas chromatography and some uses in studies of chemical kinetics

It has been found possible to determine volumes of hydrogen, methane, and carbon dioxide within the range 0.1–10 ml at S.T.P. and carbon monoxide and nitrogen within the range 0.1–0.4ml at S.T.P. with an accuracy of around 5 % in a gas chromatograph using the radioactive ionisation detector, provided that the detector temperature and the rate of carrier gas flow through the column are maintained between stated limits. Results of experiments on the sensitivity of the instrument to oxygen, sulphur dioxide, ethane, propane and n-pentane are also reported. Particular attention has been directed towards selecting the most suitable parameter of the response peaks for use in quantitative analysis.

Some particular applications of the argon chromatograph in studies of chemical kinetics involving permanent gases are described, and a method for the removal of corrosive gases from mixtures to be analysed is discussed.     

气相色谱法检测大孔吸附树脂中的有机残留物

建立了同时检测大孔吸附树脂中苯、甲苯、二甲苯、苯乙烯、二乙苯、二乙烯苯、萘、癸烷、十一烷和十二烷等10种有机残留物的测定方法。以二氯甲烷为提取溶剂,采用超声提取法对样品进行前处理。采用气相色谱法检测,色谱柱为DB-624毛细管柱,检测器为氢火焰离子化检测器。上述10种有机残留物在12 min内能很好地分离,样品的加标回收率(n=3)为73.8%～107.9%,相对标准偏差为1.3%～4.4%,最低检测限为0.007～0.03 mg/L。本方法具有灵敏、准确、快速等特点。对9种商品树脂及其预处理品的有机残留物进行了测定,结果表明树脂预处理前后有机残留物的含量相差很大,经过预处理的树脂可以安全地应用于中药的生产。