Q&A The Column www.thecolumn.eu.com September 2006 Supplies & Services the
classified directory from The Column To advertise in this section call
Clare Savage today on +44 0 1244 393 130 or email: csavage@advanstar.com
to reserve your space What disciplines do you see it being particularly
useful for? CHROMATOGRAPHY STATION The new platform will be useful for any
routine analysis where temperature programmed chromatography is used, such
as petrochemicals, food and fragrances, environmental analyses and
materials testing. Because of the lower temperature oven operation, this
new oven will be particularly suited to any application requiring a low
temperature separation without resorting to liquid cryogen operation.
Typical examples would be light hydrocarbons, permanent gases and
halocarbons. The new oven would also be well-suited for air, water and
soil analyses where a mass spectrometer is used to detect and identify
highly volatile pollutants. Can you illustrate this with a practical
example? An interesting example is an analysis we performed on diesel oil
Figure 2 . This type of analysis is performed in the petrochemical
industry for simulated distillation studies ASTM method D-2887 or for
environmental studies soil analysis for leaking underground storage tanks
. Traditionally, such an analysis may take 20
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