Design and application of Hadamard-injectors coupled with gas and supercritical fluid sample collection systems in Hadamard transform-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry

作者：Fan Zenzen; Lin Chien Hung; Chang Hung Wei; Kaneta Takashi; Lin Cheng Huang

来源：Journal of Chromatography A, 2010, 1217(5): 755-760.

DOI：10.1016/j.chroma.2009.12.007

• Hadamard transform (HT)
• VOC
• HT-GC/MS

A novel Hadamard transform-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (HT-GC/MS) system equipped with on-line sample collection systems is described. A Hadamard-injector was successfully designed and then coupled with an on-line adsorption/desorption system for detecting volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and a supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) system, respectively, by HT-GC/MS. Six VOCs and three pesticides were used as model compounds. In the former case, an activated-charcoal trap was used to trap VOCs from the indoor air. After 10 L of indoor air had passed through the trap, the condensed components were heated and simultaneously injected into the GC column through the Hadamard-injector, based on Hadamard codes. In a second experiment, a sample of rice was spiked with three types of pesticides and the sample then extracted using a commercially available supercritical fluid extractor. After extraction, the extracted components were transferred to a holding tank and simultaneously injected into the GC column also using the Hadamard-injector. The findings show that, in both cases, the combination of on-line sample collection methods and the use of the Hadamard transform resulted in improved sensitivity and detection. Compared to the single injection used in most GC/MS systems, the signal-to-noise (S/N) ratios were substantially improved after inverse Hadamard transformation of the encoded chromatogram.

• 出版日期2010-1-29