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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-2-4
pubmed:abstractText
We report on a first series of experiments comparing the selectivity and the kinetic performance of constant flow rate and constant pressure mode gradient elution separations. Both water-methanol and water-acetonitrile mobile phase mixtures have been considered, as well as different samples and gradient programs. Instrument pressures up to 1200 bar have been used. Neglecting some small possible deviations caused by viscous heating effects, the experiments could confirm the theoretical expectation that both operation modes should lead to identical separation selectivities provided the same mobile phase gradient program is run in reduced volumetric coordinates. Also in agreement with the theoretical expectations, the cP-mode led to a gain in analysis time amounting up to some 17% for linear gradients running from 5 to 95% of organic modifier at ultra-high pressures. Gains of over 25% were obtained for segmented gradients, at least when the flat portions of the gradient program were situated in regions where the gradient composition was the least viscous. Detailed plate height measurements showed that the single difference between the constant flow rate and the constant pressure mode is a (small) difference in efficiency caused by the difference in average flow rate, in turn leading to a different intrinsic band broadening. Separating a phenone sample with a 20-95% water-acetonitrile gradient, the cP-mode leads to gradient plate heights that are some 20-40% smaller than in the cF-mode in the B-term dominated regime, while they are some 5-10% larger in the C-term dominated regime. Considering a separation with sub 2-?m particles on a 350 mm long coupled column, switching to the constant pressure mode allowed to finish the run in 29 instead of in 35 min, while also a larger peak capacity is obtained (going from 334 in the cF-mode to 339 in the cP-mode) and the mutual selectivity between the different peaks is fully retained.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
1873-3778
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
25
pubmed:volume
1218
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1170-84
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
Kinetic performance limits of constant pressure versus constant flow rate gradient elution separations. Part II: experimental.
pubmed:affiliation
Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Department of Chemical Engineering (CHIS-IR), Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't