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Don’t Let Your Sweetener Go Sour: GC-VUV for the Determination of BTEX and Other Hydrocarbons in Diglycolamine Used for Removing Acid Gases in Natural Gas
Jack Cochran, VUV Analytics
Jack explains how GC-VUV can be used to characterize BTEX hydrocarbon contaminants present in diglycolamine (DGA) and water mixtures used in natural gas sweetening.
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The Exponential Power of GC-VUV: Detection of Water and Formaldehyde in Triethylene Glycol
Jack Cochran, VUV Analytics
Jack explains that GC-VUV cannot only determine water in triethylene glycol (TEG), but is also able to deconvolve the co-elution of water and formaldehyde.
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GC-VUV for the Simultaneous Determination of Water and Volatile Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Triethylene Glycol Used for Natural Gas Dehydration
Jack Cochran, VUV Analytics
Jack discusses how GC-VUV enables accurate water determination in triethylene glycol (TEG) along with volatile petroleum hydrocarbons.
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Water and Oil Don’t Mix, and Neither Do Water and Gasoline
Jack Cochran, VUV Analytics
Jack discusses how GC-VUV has been used in the determination of water in gasoline. The VUV method offers many advantages over Karl Fischer titration including greater…
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Turn Your DHA into VHA with DH, eh? Detailed Hydrocarbon Analysis of Gasoline with Gas Chromatography – Vacuum Ultraviolet Spectroscopy
Jack Cochran, VUV Analytics
Jack discusses VUV Verified hydrocarbon analysis (VUV-VHA) by GC-VUV. VUV-VHA automates hydrocarbon speciation while also providing PIONA GC analysis of gasoline stream samples.
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There’s a Wiggle in my Spectrum and It Makes Me Want to Giggle: Differences in Vacuum Ultraviolet Absorbance Spectra for Select Trans- and Cis- Olefin Isomers in Gasoline
Jack Cochran, VUV Analytics
Jack Cochran discusses how the hefty 3-hour run time and painful data review of detailed hydrocarbon analysis is not necessary when you have GC-VUV.
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You Can’t Fool VUV Analyze for PIONA Determinations in Gasoline!
Jack Cochran, VUV Analytics
PIONA GC analysis is simplified by VUV PIONA+ by ensuring correct PIONA compound class and speciation results despite changes in retention time due to temperature or…
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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
ASTM D8071 for PIONA GC compound gasoline analysis is optimized for 35°C GC oven starts. VUV PIONA+ provides temp start flexibility for PIONA GC analysis by…
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Your PIONA GC 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
VUV PIONA+ allows oven start temp flexibility and can accommodate labs struggling to hit 35°C in their PIONA GC analysis. GC-VUV provides a single column, single…
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