The Accurate Measurement of Column Dispersion

Katz et fl/.[l] searched the literature for data that could be used to identify the pertinent dispersion equation for a packed column in liquid chromatography. As a result of the search, no data was found that had been measured with the necessary accuracy and precision and under the sufficiently diverse solute/mobile phase conditions required to meet the second criteria given above. It became obvious that a 

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To minimize the effect of sample volume on dispersion, and ensure that there was minimum dispersion from the valve and valve connections, a 0.2 pi Valeo internal 

The initial work was carried out using a silica column 25 cm long and 9 mm I.D. packed with Partisil 10 silica (actual mean particle diameter 8.5 pm) thermostatted at 

In their first series of experiments, six data sets were obtained for (H) and (u), employing six solvent mixtures, each exhibiting different diffusivities for the two solutes. This served two purposes as not only were there six different data sets with which the dispersion equations could be tested, but the coefficients in those equations supported by the data sets could be subsequently correlated with solute diffusivity. The solvents employed were approximately 5%v/v ethyl acetate in n-pentane, n-hexane, n-heptane, -octane, -nonane and n-decane. The solutes used were benzyl acetate and hexamethylbenzene. The diffusivity of each solute in each solvent mixture was determined in the manner of Katz et al. [3] and the values obtained are included 

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