Process Gas Chromatography

Advanced Design and Troubleshooting
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-119-79147-8
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 206 mm x 257 mm, Gewicht: 1304 g

Understand a key tool for optimizing an industrial process

Process gas chromatography is a method used to separate and analyze chemical compounds in an industrial process. First established in the middle of the twentieth century, it aims to return analytical results rapidly enough that they can be used to optimized a fluid processing plant. It is a complex process which demands meticulous training of process gas chromatograph engineers and operators.

Process Gas Chromatography: Advanced Design and Troubleshooting offers an essential companion volume to the author’s earlier Process Gas Chromatographs: Fundamentals, Design and Implementation. It builds on the previous volume’s foundation to offer a full understanding of how PGC technology can be optimized and applied to specific processes. Focused on advanced principles and practical methods, it’s a must-own for process engineers at any professional stage.

Process Gas Chromatography readers will also find: - Extensive troubleshooting assistance including many test sequences for diagnosing and correcting malfunctions
- Coverage of the theory required to improve reliability and accuracy of PGC methods
- A detailed summary and self-assessment questions accompanying each standalone chapter

Process Gas Chromatography is ideal for end-user process analyzer engineers, applications chemists, maintenance personnel, and troubleshooters working in the fluid processing industries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Waters, Tony

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Analytische Chemie
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Verfahrenstechnik, Chemieingenieurwesen
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Chemische Verfahrenstechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors xxiii

Preface to the first book xxviii

Preface to the second book xxx

Acknowledgments xxxi

1 Fundamentals 1

2 Measures of perfection 15

3 Column technology 39

4 The stationary phase 82

5 PGC column design 119

6 Optimizing performance 149

7 Extracolumn broadening 179

8 Evaluating peak shape 204

9 Columns in series 230

10 Backflush systems 250

11 Heartcut systems 274

12 PGC troubleshooting 297

13 Troubleshooting chromatograms 329

Answers to self-assessment questions 365

Subject index of SCI-FILEs 378

Glossary of terms 379

Index 417

Über Autor(innen)

Tony Waters owns Analyzer Consulting Engineers, LLC in USA and is an Elected Fellow of International Society of Automation. Since 2000, he has been a Consultant in Process Analysis assisting refiners and chemical processors to achieve optimal use of process analyzers. He had twenty-five years‘ experience of working in the industry before setting up his own company, Measurementation, Inc. in 1986 to manufacture process analyzer systems.