Use of early solvent vapor exits for concurrent eluent evaporation with the loop-type interface has two purposes: protection of the GC detectors from large amounts of solvent vapors and more efficient discharge of the vapors to accelerate eluent evaporation and help avoiding broad solvent peaks. Use
Coupled LC-GC: Evaporation rates for partially concurrent eluent evaporation using an early solvent vapor exit
β Scribed by Schmarr, Hans-Georg ;Mosandl, Armin ;Grob, Konrad
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 617 KB
- Volume
- 12
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0935-6304
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β¦ Synopsis
Partially concurrent eluent evaporation presupposes an eluent
1.2 Early Vapor Exit evaporation rate in the GC pretolumn that approaches the LC flow rate. Discharging the vapors through the whole GC column, evaporation rates reach 10-30 pl/min, i.e. are suitable just for LC flow rates typical for packed capillary LC columns. With an early vapor exit, evaporation rates are increased to 100-200 pl/min (under extreme conditions to some 800 pllmin), thus fitting the LC flow rates of 2 mm i.d. columns. Evaporation rates were measured for a standard set of precolumns and conditions.The dependence of the evaporation rate on temperature, inlet pressure, carrier gas, and internal diameter of the retaining pre-column are discussed in order to allow the design of a GC system producing a desired evaporation rate. K Grob a n d E Muller, HRC & CC 11 (1988) 388 a n d 560 K Grob a n d E Muller, J Chromatogr , in press
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When 0.53 mm i.d. uncoated precolumns connected to a solvent vapor exit are used for sample introduction with partially concurrent solvent evaporation, substantial losses of volatile solutes are often observed. They were found to be the consequence of solute accumulation at the front end of the floo