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Gehm, C.* ; Schnepel, K.* ; Czech, H. ; Miersch, T.* ; Ehlert, S.* ; Zimmermann, R.

Hyper-fast gas chromatography and single-photon ionisation time-of-flight mass spectrometry with integrated electrical modulator-based sampling for headspace and online VOC analyses.

Analyst 146, 3137-3149 (2021)
Postprint DOI PMC
Open Access Green
We developed a novel fast gas chromatography (fastGC) instrument with integrated sampling of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and detection by single-photon ionisation (SPI) time-of-flight mass spectrometry (TOFMS). A consumable-free electrical modulator rapidly cools down to -55 °C to trap VOCs and inject them on a short chromatographic column by prompt heating to 300 °C, followed by carrier gas exchange from air to helium. Due to the low thermal mass and optical heating, the fastGC is operated within total runtimes including cooling for 30 s and 15 s, referring to hyper-fast GC, and at a constantly increasing temperature ramp from 30 °C to 280 °C. The application of soft SPI-TOFMS allows the detection of co-eluting VOCs of different molecular compositions, which cannot be resolved by conventional GC (cGC) with electron ionisation (EI). Among other analytical figures of merit, we achieved limits of detection for toluene and p-xylene of 2 ppb and 0.5 ppb, respectively, at a signal-to-noise ratio of 3 and a linear response over a range of more than five orders of magnitude. Furthermore, we demonstrate the performance of the instrument on samples from the fields of environmental research and food science by headspace analysis of roasted coffee beans and needles from coniferous trees as well as by quasi-real-time analysis of biomass burning emissions and coffee roast gas.
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Publikationstyp Artikel: Journalartikel
Dokumenttyp Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
Korrespondenzautor
ISSN (print) / ISBN 0003-2654
e-ISSN 1364-5528
Zeitschrift Analyst, The
Quellenangaben Band: 146, Heft: 10, Seiten: 3137-3149 Artikelnummer: , Supplement: ,
Verlag Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
Verlagsort Thomas Graham House, Science Park, Milton Rd, Cambridge Cb4 0wf, Cambs, England
Nichtpatentliteratur Publikationen
Begutachtungsstatus Peer reviewed
Institut(e) Cooperation Group Comprehensive Molecular Analytics (CMA)
Förderungen Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (HGF) within the Helmholtz International Lab aeroHEALTH
German Science Foundation (DFG)