Gas Adsorption Chromatography of Higher Hydrocarbons. Determination of Normal Paraffins by Temperature‐Programmed Segregation Gas Chromatography on 5A Molecular Sieve
A fast temperature program makes it possible to determine the normal paraffins up to C 20 in the concentration range between 0.1 and 99.9 percent (molecule type analysis). From the group peak of the normal paraffins we can obtain on line the distribution of the carbon numbers.
As the normal paraffin selectivity of the molecular sieve S ≈ 1 can be assumed. Isoparaffin memory could not be detected.
The new method makes it possible to perform analysis with great accuracy within three minutes or less. Connected to a computer it is excellently suitable for large series of samples.
Under the standard conditions of this method only a little paraffin cracking has been found. Type and quantity of the cracked products proved to be independent of the chain length of the individual normal paraffin.