Chromatography

Analyte

• Undecomposed vaporizable sample mixtures
• Substances with a boiling point below 400 °C and molecular mass under 500 g/mol
• Gaseous, liquid und solid samples

Equipment

Capillary-Gas Chromatograph (Perkin Elmer)

• GC Clarus™ 690 with Flame ionization detector FID and coupled with Mass spectrometer Clarus™ SQ 8 T with electron impact ionization

Sampling systems

• Automatic liquid sampler
• Headspace Sampler - Turbo Matrix™ 40
• Thermal Desorber - Turbo Matrix™ 350

Targets

• Separation of sample mixtures
• Qualitative and quantitative detection of the single components
• Calibration with reference substance as intern and extern standards
• Identification of substances by comparing unknown spectra with spectra of a mass spectral library

Application examples

• Determination of methyl ester end groups in polyesters after hydrazinolysis
• Investigation of polyester composition after methanolysis
• TVOC-determination of organic emission after VDA277 with Headspace-GC and according to VDA278 by thermodesorption
• Test of epichlorohydrin and by-products in cationic starch