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You Can’t Fool VUV Analyze for PIONA Determinations in Gasoline!
Jack Cochran, VUV Analytics
Anyone who has seen me in action knows I must constantly play around with gas chromatography conditions for any application, even one as well-developed as ASTM…
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Proving It by VUVing It: Using a Higher GC Oven Start Temperature for Gasoline Analysis with a VUV Detector – ASTM D8071 System Validation Mixture
Jack Cochran, VUV Analytics
As mentioned in my previous blog post, ASTM D8071-17: Standard Test Method for Determination of Hydrocarbon Group Types and Select Hydrocarbon and Oxygenate Compounds in Automotive…
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Your PIONA Analysis is Cool, but My Lab Ain’t: Using a Higher GC Oven Start Temperature for Gasoline Analysis with a VUV Detector
Jack Cochran, VUV Analytics
Jack Cochran explains how data processing through VUV Analyze PIONA + allows flexibility on initial oven temperature to accommodate labs struggling to hit 35°C
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Better Living Through (Flavor) Chemistry Part 2 – Read Between (or Beneath) the Lines
Alex Hodgson, VUV Analytics
Alex Hodgson explains how unique terpene VUV spectra can be used to spectrally deconvolve co-eluting isomers in fast GC-VUV runs.
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Dilution is Not Always the Solution: The Impact of Makeup Gas Pressure for a VUV Detector for GC
Jack Cochran, VUV Analytics
Jack Cochran describes how dilution with makeup gas impacts analyte residence time in the VUV detector flow cell. Higher makeup gas pressure = higher makeup gas…
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Corrosion Cocktail – Part Ethanol, Part Gasoline, Part Diesel – Analyzed Using GC-VUV
Jack Cochran, VUV Analytics
Part 2 of Jack Cochran's blog about how GC-VUV can be used to monitor for ethanol in diesel storage to prevent serious microbiologically-influenced corrosion problems.
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Analyzing Ethanol in Diesel with Static Headspace – GC-VUV
Jack Cochran, VUV Analytics
Ethanol is a common “oxygenate” added to automobile gasoline in the United States to enable more complete combustion and reduced air pollution. Typically, ethanol is not…
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Chromatographic Compression & Enhanced Productivity for Residual Solvents Analysis
Lindsey Shear-Laude, VUV Analytics
Lindsey Shear-Laude describes how the analysis of residual solvents in pharmaceutical products by GC-VUV and static headspace results in the reduction of chromatography runtimes by >5X…
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Better Living Through (Flavor) Chemistry Part 1 – We Don’t Need No Separation, We Don’t Need No Flow Control
Alex Hodgson, VUV Analytics
In Part 1 we’ll take a look at terpene isomer differentiation by GC-VUV, and why we’re able to speed up GC run times and increase sample…
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