Basic Principles of Gas Chromatography: Martin R. Hackman NJ - Dep Office of Quality Assurance

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Basic Principles of Gas Chromatography

Martin R. Hackman
NJ - DEP Office of Quality Assurance

THE CHROMATOGRAPHIC PROCESS - PARTITIONING


(gas or liquid)

MOBILE PHASE

Sample in

Sample out

STATIONARY PHASE
(solid or heavy liquid coated onto a solid or support system)

GC Methods
Parameter Group
SDW05.13000s SDW05.24000s

Method
EPA 502.2 EPA 551.1

Compounds
VOCs Cl-VOCs/Pests

WPP05.04000s
WPP06.03000s SHW06.21000s

EPA 604
EPA 625 SW-846 8141A

Phenols
SVOCs Org-P Pests

Instrumentation
Injection Port - Sample introduction

Manual - Direct Injection


Automated - Autosampler - Purge and Trap

Instrumentation - Oven
Temperature Control
Isothermal
240 200

Gradient

Temp (deg C)

160 120 80 40 0 0 10 20 30 Time (min) 40 50 60

Columns
Packed

Capillary

Polarity

Non-polar

Polar

Phases

Instrumentation - Detectors
Destructive
Mass Spectral (CI/EI) [625] Flame Ionization (FID) [604] Nitrogen-Phosphorus (NPD) [8141A] Flame Photometric (FPD) [8141A] Electrolytic Conductivity (Hall/ELCD) [502.2]

Instrumentation - Detectors
Non-Destructive Thermal Conductivity (TCD)

Electron Capture (ECD) [551.1]


Photo Ionization (PID) [502.2]

Chromatograms - 551.1

Chromatograms - 604

Supelco PTE-5

Supelco SPB-50

m- Cresol

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