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Comparison of photodiode array, evaporative light scattering, and single-quadrupole mass spectrometric detection methods for the UPLC analysis of pyrolysis liquids

  • Kristine Meile*
  • , Aivars Zhurinsh
  • , Arturs Viksna
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry
  • University of Latvia

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Abstract

It is important to analyze pyrolysis liquids to evaluate the yield of valuable products as well as unfavorable by-products. This work focuses on choosing detectors for reversed-phase ultra high-performance liquid chromatography analysis of pyrolysis liquids. The linearity, sensitivity, precision, and recovery of photodiode array (PDA) detector, single-quadrupole mass spectrometer (MS), and evaporative light scattering (ELS) detector were compared for the quantitative determination of several typical compounds found in pyrolysis liquids. PDA and MS detectors were found to be suitable for the quantification of furans and phenol derivatives (furfural, vanillin, syringol), but sugars and their derivatives (glucose, xylose, levoglucosan) can be analyzed with MS or ELS detectors.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)369-375
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of Liquid Chromatography and Related Technologies
Volume40
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Apr 2017

Keywords

  • Evaporative light scattering detector
  • mass spectrometer
  • phenols
  • photodiode array detector
  • pyrolysis liquids
  • sugar derivatives
  • UPLC

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