USAGE OF A FLAME-IONIZATION DETECTOR FOR QUANTITATIVE DETERMINATION OF IMPURITIES IN ORGANIC COMPOUNDS,

Abstract

An evaluation is made of the experimental conditions that must be considered in quantitative impurity determinations in the 0.01 to 0.000001 range with a gas chromatograph. In this evaluation particular attention is given to flame parameters (gas velocities and electrode voltages) and detector linearity. The dependence of detector response on molecular structure and, in particular, on various functional groups is investigated for a variety of compounds. It is shown that even moderate thermal cracking between the column and the flame has a profound effect on the detector response. A practical prescription for impurity determination with flame-ionization detectors is given. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1967
Accession Number
AD0678770

Entities

People

  • P. Luyga
  • R. Pyuss

Organizations

  • National Air and Space Intelligence Center

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chromatographs
  • Detectors
  • Electrodes
  • Impurities
  • Ionization
  • Linearity
  • Molecular Structure
  • Organic Compounds
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Warning Systems

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Combustion science or combustion engineering.
  • Semiconductor Device Technology
  • Theoretical Analysis.