Rapid determination of thermodynamic parameters from one-dimensional programmed-temperature gas chromatography for use in retention time prediction in comprehensive multidimensional chromatography

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Teague M. McGinitie, Heshmatollah Ebrahimi-Najafabadi, and James J. Harynuk

• A new method for estimating the thermodynamic parameters of ΔH(T0), ΔS(T0), and ΔCP for use in thermodynamic modeling of GC×GC separations has been developed. The method is an alternative to the traditional isothermal separations required to fit a three-parameter thermodynamic model to retention data. Herein, a non-linear optimization technique is used to estimate the parameters from a series of temperature-programmed separations using the Nelder-Mead simplex algorithm. With this method, the time required to obtain estimates of thermodynamic parameters a series of analytes is significantly reduced. This new method allows for precise predictions of retention time with the average error being only 0.2 s for 1D separations. Predictions for GC×GC separations were also in agreement with experimental measurements; having an average relative error of 0.37 % for 1tr and 2.1 % for 2tr.

• Date created

  2013-01-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography; gas chromatography; retention time; prediction; thermodynamics

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-qnq2-p992

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International