This book provides a comprehensive up-to-date overview of temperature-programmed gas chromatography (GC). The first part of the book introduces the reader to the basic concepts of GC and the key properties of GC columns. The second part describes the mathematical and physical background of GC. In the third part, different aspects in the formation of a chromatogram are discussed, including retention times, peak spacing and peak widths. Dimensionless heating rate is introduced.
An invaluable reference for any chromatographer and analytical chemist, it provides all the answers to questions like:
* At what temperature does a solute elute in a temperature-programmed analysis?
* How large is the retention factor of eluting solute?
* How wide are the peaks?
* How large is the time distance between two peaks?
* Which parameters affect the reversal of the peak elution order?
* How do all these factors depend on the heating rate?
The use of dimensionless heating rate makes the answers to these questions equally valid for all practical column dimensions, carrier gases and flow rates.