Monitoring of trace levels of p-dioxan in high purity benzene feedstock by capillary gas chromatography
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A procedure has been standarized for the determination of p-dioxan (1,4-dioxan) in benzene feedstock in the range of 1 to 100 ppm by capillary GC. The GC conditions such as oven temperature, length of the column etc were optimized to achieve better resolution of p-dioxan from hydrocarbons. The standard addition method of quantitation, was used to determine the amount of p-dioxan and was found to give better results than those obtained by external standardization. Prior to analysis the identity of the p-dioxan peak was established by GC-MS. The proposed method has been applied for the monitoring of p-dioxan in high purity benzene feedstock produced by the Udex extraction process in the refinery. The data were used for optimization of plant conditions for the production of high purity benzene feedstock. By using this method, the p-dioxan content down to 0.5 ppm can be determined in the benzene feedstock.
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Gas chromatography p-Dioxan BenzenePreview
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