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The product stream contains gases and soflds. The soflds are removed by using either cyclones, filters, or both in combination. Cyclones are devices used to separate soflds from fluids using vortex flow. The product gas stream must be cooled before being sent to the collection and refining system. The ALMA process uses cyclones as a primary separation technique with filters employed as a final separation step after the off-gas has been cooled and before it is sent to the collection and refining system (148). As in the fixed-bed process, the reactor off-gas must be incinerated to destroy unreacted butane and by-products before being vented to the atmosphere. 

The recent development and comparative application of modern separation techniques with regard to determination of alkylphosphonic acids and lewisite derivatives have been demonstrated. This report highlights advantages and shortcomings of GC equipped with mass spectrometry detector and HPLC as well as CE with UV-Vis detector. The comparison was made from the sampling point of view and separation/detection ability. The derivatization procedure for GC of main degradation products of nerve agents to determine in water samples was applied. Direct determination of lewisite derivatives by HPLC-UV was shown. Also optimization of indirect determination of alkylphosphonic acids in CE-UV was developed. Finally, the new instrumental development and future trends will be discussed. 

The comparison among these techniques is tabulated in Table 22.1. In summary, HdC is a separation technique with low selectivity however, the efficiency can be very high. Especially in PCHdC, high analysis speed can be achieved over a wide MW range. ThFFF performs best for the separation of high MW samples. SEC has an intermediate selectivity between FldC and ThFFF. Practicality makes SEC the most suitable method for the common MW range of synthetic polymers. SEC is by far the most commonly used technique for molecular weight distribution determinations. However, HdC is better for the fast analysis purpose. 

Complex polymers are distributed in more than one molecular property, for example, comonomer composition, functionality, molecular topology, or molar mass. Liquid chromatographic techniques can be used to determine these properties. However, one single technique cannot provide information on the correlation of different properties. A useful approach for determining correlated properties is to combine a selective separation technique with an information-rich detector or a second selective separation technique. 

The hyphenation of CE and NMR combines a powerful separation technique with an information-rich detection method. Although compared with LC-NMR, CE-NMR is still in its infancy it has the potential to impact a variety of applications in pharmaceutical, food chemistry, forensics, environmental, and natural products analysis because of the high information content and low sample requirements of this method [82-84]. In addition to standard capillary electrophoresis separations, two CE variants have become increasingly important in CE-NMR, capillary electrochromatography and capillary isotachophoresis, both of which will be described later in this section. 

Interfacing of solution-based separation techniques with mass spectrometry has historically been a challenge because of the incompatibility of the used solvent with the vacuum system. Standard electron impact (El) ionization with techniques such as particle beam require samples to be vaporized under high vacuum for ion formation to occur. 

The first approaches to the coupling of liquid-phase separation techniques with mass spectrometry were designed for HPLC needs, starting in the 1970s with since-forgotten techniques such as direct liquid introduction (DLI) and moving belt. In the 1980s, techniques such as thermospray, continuous-flow-fast atom bombardment (CF-FAB), and particle beam arose. 

Capillary electrochromatography (CEC) is a rapidly emerging analytical separation technique, with several different instrumental formats and prepacked CEC capillary columns now available. P15-323 As an advanced nanoseparation technology, CEC represents an orthogonal hybrid of HPLC and HP-CZE. As a consequence, resolution can be achieved... 

The aim of this text is to introduce the fascinating topic of the hyphenation of chromatographic separation techniques with nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy to an interested readership with a background either in organic, pharmaceutical or medical chemistry. The basic principles of NMR spectroscopy, as well as those of separation science, should previously be known to the reader. 

As natural product extracts often contain a large number of closely related and thus difficult to separate compounds, this classical approach may become very tedious and time-consuming. Thus, the direct hyphenation of an efficient separation technique with a powerful spectroscopic method bears great potential in order to speed up the analytical process in general. 

As noted earlier, the development of the dual cell (37), tandem quadrupole-FTMS (46, 47) and external ionization cell (48, 49) has facilitated the coupling of FTMS and chromatographic methods. Advances in interfacing separation techniques with FTMS will be important in the analysis of mixtures, especially where high mass resolution is required. For example, liquid chromatographic introduction of mixtures isolated from biological systems directly into an FTMS for analysis would eliminate the need for laborious sample clean up. 

Schulz, G. (1988) Separation techniques with supported liquid membranes. Desalination, 68, 191. 

Fig. 2.22. Coupling of capillary separation techniques with NMR (taken from Ref. [72] with permission of the publisher).

In continuos flow FAB (CFFAB) [7,24,47] the analyte-matrix mixture is delivered continuously to the probe tip through a fused silica capillary which terminates at the probe tip. This configuration provides a means of coupling liquid phase separation techniques with FAB-MS. Addition of the matrix to the analyte solution is accomplished by one of two methods. (1) The matrix is added at concentrations of 5-10% to the mobile phase, and the column effluent is directly fluxed into the CFFAB ion source or (2) column effluent and matrix solution are delivered independently to the probe tip by a coaxial arrangement of two concentric fused silica capillaries. 

The nutritional, chemical, biological, and toxicological properties of a chemical element are known to be critically dependent on the form in which it occurs in food. The recognition of this fact has spurred the development of species-selective (speciation) analytical methods for food additives and contaminants. According to the IUPAC s dehnition, speciation analysis deals with the analytical activities of identification and/or measurement of the quantities of one or more individual chemical species in a given sample [1], The analytical approach is usually based on the combination of a chromatographic separation technique with an element-specif>c detection technique. The former ensures that the analyte compound leaves the column unaccompanied by other species of the analyte element, whereas the latter enables a sensitive and specil>c detection of the target element. Coupled (also called hyphenated) techniques have become a fundamental tool for speciation analysis and have been discussed in many published reviews [2D6]. 

S. P. Mendez, E. B. Gonzalez, A. Sanz-Medel, Hybridation of different chiral separation techniques with ICP-MS detection for the separation and determination of selenomethionine enantiomers chiral speciation of selenized yeast, Biomed. Chromatogr., 15 (2001), 181D188. 

Antibody purification processes are rational combinations of two or more chromatographic separations techniques with the aim of removing all relevant impurities from the antibody preparation according to the demands of the application. 

In order to analyse a complex mixture, for example natural products, a separation technique - gas chromatography (GC), liquid chromatography (LC) or capillary electrophoresis (CE) - is coupled with the mass spectrometer. The separated products must be introduced one after the other into the spectrometer, either in the gaseous state for GC/MS or in solution for LC/MS and CE/MS. This can occur in two ways the eluting compound is collected and analysed off-line or the chromatograph is connected directly to the mass spectrometer and the mass spectra are acquired while the compounds of the mixture are eluted. The latter method operates on-line. Reviews on the coupling of separation techniques with mass spectrometry have been published in the last few years [1-4]. 

The most obvious advantage drawn from coupling a separation technique with mass spectrometry consists of obtaining a spectrum used for identifying the isolated product. However, this is not the only goal that can be reached. The ideal detector should ... 

Capillary isoelectric focusing (CIEF) is one of the separation techniques with the highest resolution power. Since the first experiments performed by Hjerten and co-workers in the mid-1980s [1-3], hundreds of papers have appeared about methodological aspects and utilization. 

The most frequently chosen method for compound characterization in the pharmaceutical industry is LC/MS [6]. Replacing flow injection by a chromatographic separation prior to MS analysis offers three major advantages i) impurities or by-products are separated in time from the product of interest, rendering a purity assessment of the sample possible ii) ionization suppression of the compound of interest by salts, detergents, or by-products is avoided iii) the interpretation of mass spectra of pure compounds is much easier than the MS analysis of mixtures. Combinations of separation techniques with mass spectrometry have been reviewed recently by Tomer [39]. 

As has been demonstrated, the combination of selective separation techniques with powerful spectroscopic detectors enables complex polymers to be analyzed with respect to all possible types of molecular heterogeneity. Chemical composition distribution can be monitored across the molar mass distribution. Steric and functional peculiarities can be detected over the entire molar mass range. 

Protein kinase C epsilon signaling complexes include metabolism- and transcription/translati on-related proteins complimentary separation techniques with LC/MS/MS. Mol. Cell Proteomics 1, 421 33. 

Schaumloffel, D. Capillary liquid separation techniques with ICP MS detection. Anal. Bioanal. Chem. 379, 351-354 (2004)... 

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