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Comparison of titania, zirconia, and silica stationary phases for separating diesel fuels according to hydrocarbon group-type by supercritical fluid chromatography

2005; Elsevier BV; Volume: 1095; Issue: 1-2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.chroma.2005.07.124

1873-3778

Richard E. Paproski, Jean Cooley, Charles A. Lucy,

Phase Equilibria and Thermodynamics

Silica, zirconia, and titania columns were compared for their ability to separate diesel samples into saturates, mono-, di-, tri-, and polyaromatics by supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) using pure CO(2) according to ASTM method D 5186-03. A titania column coupled in series to a silica column was found to provide the highest overall group-type resolutions based on 20 model compounds, with resolutions as high as 14.7 for saturates versus monoaromatics and 11.9 for monoaromatics versus diaromatics. An oilsands-derived Synfuel light diesel, a commercial Ontario diesel, and a heavy Shell Canada Ltd. diesel blending feedstock were studied on a titania-silica coupled column as well as on a conventional silica column. The Synfuel results were similar (within 0.5 mass%) on both the conventional bare silica column and the titania-silica coupled column. The heavier commercial diesel and diesel blending feedstock samples yielded different results on the titania-silica coupled column compared to the silica column alone, demonstrating the importance of achieving the highest possible resolutions when baseline separation of group-types is not obtained.