Search results for "Theoretical plate"
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Novel porous carbon packings in reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography
1980
Abstract Porous carbon packings of particle size 5–20 μm were prepared by calcination of purified active carbons and cokes having narrow size ranges. Highly efficient columns packed with 10-μm particles were obtained by means of the high-viscosity slurry technique, and exhibited about 3000 theoretical plates at 100 mm length and optimal eluent flow-rate. The loading of columns, θ0.1, was determined to be 25–50 μg of solute per gram of packing. Eluotropic series of solvents were found to be similar to those on pyrocarbon-modified carbons and silicas. The log k′ values for homologous compounds increased linearly with the hydrocarbonaceous surface area at constant eluent composition. Studies w…
Influence of temperature on the behaviour of small linear peptides in capillary electrochromatography
2000
The influence of temperature, T, on the retention times, peak widths, peak symmetry coefficients and theoretical plate numbers of two small linear peptides, [Met5]enkephalin and [Leu5]enkephalin, has been studied with capillary electrochromatography (CEC) capillary columns of 100 microm I.D. and 250 mm packed length with a total length of 335 mm, containing 3 microm Hypersil n-octadecyl bonded silica. With increasing column temperature from 15 to 60 degrees C, the electroosmotic flow (EOF) and the column efficiencies increased, whereas the retention coefficients (Kcec) of both peptides decreased. A linear relationship was found between the EOF value and the square root of the temperature ov…
Novel general expressions that describe the behavior of the height equivalent of a theoretical plate in chromatographic systems involving electricall…
2002
Novel general expressions are constructed and presented that describe the behavior of the height equivalent of a theoretical plate (plate height), H, as a function of the linear velocity, Vx, along the axis, x, of the column and the kinetic parameters that characterize the mass transfer and adsorption mechanisms in chromatographic columns. Open tube capillaries as well as columns packed with either non-porous or porous particles are studied. The porous particles could have unimodal or bimodal pore-size distributions and intraparticle convective fluid flow and pore diffusion are considered. The expressions for the plate height, H, presented in this work could be applicable to high-performanc…
Gel permeation Chromatography in coiled columns
1973
Whereas in gas chromatography the use of coiled columns is the usual procedure, in liquid chromatography the use of straight columns is favoured. Bent columns give an additional contribution to peak spreading which is of greater importance in liquid chromatography than in gas chromatography owing to smaller diffusion coefficients. The low linear velocities of the mobile phase used in gel permeation chromatography enable conditions to be found where the additional contribution of bending to peak spreading is small. In the separation of oligomers, columns of 2-mm tube diameter and 20-cm coil diameter were used. With total lengths of 10 and 20 m, theoretical plate counts of ca. 70,000 and 150,…
A theoretical plate model accounting for slow kinetics in chromatographic elution.
2011
The chromatographic elution has been studied from different perspectives. However, in spite of the simplicity and evident deficiencies of the plate model proposed by Martin and Synge, it has served as a basis for the characterization of columns up-to-date. This approach envisions the chromatographic column as an arbitrary number of theoretical plates, each of them consisting of identical repeating portions of mobile phase and stationary phase. Solutes partition between both phases, reaching the equilibrium. Mobile phase transference between the theoretical plates is assumed to be infinitesimally stepwise (or continuous), giving rise to the mixing of the solutions in adjacent plates. This yi…
Extraktionschromatographische trennung der freien uroporphyrinisomere i und iii und deren simultane quantitative bestimmung
1968
Abstract Separation and simultaneous quantitative determination of the free uroporphyrin isomers I and III by means of extraction chromatography Separation and quantitative determination of the uroporphyrin isomers I and III in the acid from can be performed simultaneously in the partition system tri-n-butylphosphate/I N hydrochloric acid using columns with a large number of theoretical plates (N) = 300-450). The eluent is passed through a flow cuvette and the transmission is recorded continuously. The transmission peaks of the isomers are digitized and transformed into extinction values. By integrating the extinction peaks, the amount of the uroporphyrins can be evaluated from the correspo…
Analysis of organic pollutants in water at trace levels using fully automated solid-phase extraction coupled to high-performance liquid chromatography
1997
A method has been developed for the determination of trace levels of 32 pesticides, 19 explosives and 16 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in water in three individual steps. Solid-phase enrichment (SPE) is coupled to high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with a fully automated system. The organic pollutants are enriched on reusable cartridges packed with adsorbent materials: pesticides and explosives on a mixed bed of divinylbenzene-ethylvinylbenzene copolymers (LiChrolut EN®) and perfluorinated polyethylene (PolyF®), and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons on C18-modified silica (Zorbax® ODS1). Thermally assisted desorption (TAD) has been shown to increase the recovery of analyt…
Capillary zone electrophoresis for the determination of thiabendazole, prochloraz and procymidone in grapes
2001
Capillary zone electrophoresis with UV detection was applied to the simultaneous determination of thiabendazole, prochloraz and procymidone in grapes. Electrolyte conditions such as pH, composition and concentration of the buffer, addition of organic solvent and working voltage were checked to obtain a high-performance separation of the three fungicides (by measurement of separation efficiency and resolution). The most critical parameter was the pH of the running buffer. The best separation was achieved in 4 mM phosphate solution at pH 3.5. The repeatability of the migration times, expressed as RSD, was <0.44%. The three peaks were completely resolved with a separation efficiency up to 100 …
RpeakChrom: Novel R package for the automated characterization and optimization of column efficiency in high-performance liquid chromatography analys…
2017
Characterization of chromatographic columns using the traditional van Deemter method is limited by the necessity of calculating extra-column variance, issue particularly relevant when modeling asymmetrical peaks eluted from monolithic columns. A novel R package that implements Parabolic Variance Modified Gaussian approach for accurate peak modeling, van Deemter equation and two alternatives approaches, based on van Deemter, has been developed to calculate the height equivalent to a theoretical plate (HETP). To assess package capabilities conventional packed reverse-phase and monolithic HPLC columns were characterized. Peaks eluted from the monolithic column showed a high value of factor asy…
Evaluation and comparison of the pore structure and related properties of particulate and monolithic silicas for liquid phase separation processes
2002
Two types of silicas, highly porous beads of 10 μm average particle diameter and particle porosity between 48 to 86 % and monolithic silicas with constant mesopore diameter of 12 nm, constant total porosity of 80 % at variable macropore diameter between 2 and 6 μm were subjected to pore structural characterisation and tests in high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). The column permeability KF of the columns packed with highly porous beads was twice as much as for the monolithic silica columns. The differences in theoretical plate height - linear velocity curves could be explained on the basis of the pore connectivity values nT of the materials which were computed from the nitrogen so…