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Gas chromatography with ballistic heating and ultrafast cooling of column

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An overview of the existing methods for minimization of the analysis time in gas chromatography (GC) is presented and a new system for fast temperature programming and very fast cooling down is evaluated. In this study, a system of coaxial tubes, a heating/cooling module (HC-M), was developed and studied with a capillary column placed inside the HC-M. The module itself was heated by a GC oven and cooled down by an external cooling medium. The HC-M was heated at rates of up to 330 °C min−1 and cooled at the rate of 6000 °C min−1. The GC system was prepared for the next run within a few seconds. The HC-M permits good separation reproducibility, comparable with that of a conventional GC, expressed in terms of relative retention times and peak areas of analytes reproducibilities. The HC-M can be used within any commercial gas chromatograph.

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  1. Chemical Institute, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Mlynská dolina CH-2, SK-845 45, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Žofia Krkošová, Róbert Kubinec, Helena Jurdáková, Jaroslav Blaško, Ivan Ostrovský & Ladislav Soják

  2. Department of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Charles University, Hlavova 2030, CZ-128 40, Prague, Czech Republic

    Jiří Ševčík

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Krkošová, Ž., Kubinec, R., Jurdáková, H. et al. Gas chromatography with ballistic heating and ultrafast cooling of column. Chem. Pap. 62, 135–140 (2008). https://doi.org/10.2478/s11696-008-0002-6

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