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As early as 1903-1906 a Russian botanist Mikhail Tsvet (Lecturer in the Warsaw University)
performed experiments trying to separate pigments of plants. Using a solvent, petroleum
ether, he washed the pigments through a vertical glass tube filled with a powder-like
absorbent, calcium carbonate. As the result of this procedure, he obtained a series of coloured
absorption bands. He first used a term ‘chromatography’ to describe this method. Word
‘chromatography’ consists of two words ‘chromatos’ (in Greek language means ‘colour’) and
‘grapho’ (in Greek language means ‘writing’), and means ‘colour writing’. By coincidence,
the surname ‘Tsvet’ in Russian language means ‘colour’.
Chromatography methods are classified regarding to the types of moving and stationary
phases according to Figure 7.1. (from Considine D. M. Process Instruments and Controls
Handbook. McGraw-Hill Book Company, Sydney, 1985, p. 6.170).
Chromatography
Liquid-Liquid Gas-Liquid
Chromatography Chromatography
Liquid-Solid Gas-Solid
Chromatography Chromatography
Chromatographs are widely used for composition measurements of gaseous and liquid
mixtures. Usually they are complex laboratory equipment. Modern on-line chromatography
systems for continuous, repetitive and fully automatic gas analysis have been developed, and
in principle have all essential elements inherent to laboratory-type equipment. Fig. 7.3
schematically shows an operational principle of an on-line gas-chromatograph.
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A sample of a gas mixture 1 is withdrawn continuously from a process unit 2 and through a
shutoff valve 3, filter 3a (for removing of particulate matter) and pressure regulator 4 (for
reducing pressure to a lower constant value) circulates through a sample conditioning unit 5.
After the sample conditioning unit the stream enters the process 6 through a shutoff valve 7 in
the point of a lower pressure compared with the sample withdrawal point. The sample
conditioning unit allows to calibrate the gas-chromatograph with the synthetic calibration
blend from a container 8, through a pressure regulator 9, and to control flowrate. A carrier gas
(nitrogen, helium) is supplied from a cylinder 10, and its pressure is controlled by a pressure
regulator 11 and a pneumatic control section 12. An analyser 13 contains separating columns,
flame ionisation and/or thermal conductivity detector(s) and a temperature control unit. A
metering pump, which is placed in the sample conditioning unit, injects a small sample of an
already conditioned gas mixture into the separating column, which is placed in the analyser.
An electronic module 14 stores analytical programs in RAM and controls functions of the
analyser. Analytical data are transferred from the electronic module to a data processor 15,
where they are converted to analog signals. These signals are transmitted to a bar graph
recorder16 and a number of trend recorders 17. A host computer 18 controls all actions of the
chromatograph, receives results, alarm messages, stores application programs. A real-time
chromatogram is printed on the printer 19. Here are several values of parameters of a
chromatograph:
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