M. Arnold et al., THE PLASMA EMISSION DETECTOR (PED) AS AN ELEMENT-SELECTIVE DETECTOR FOR SUPERCRITICAL-FLUID CHROMATOGRAPHY, Fresenius' journal of analytical chemistry, 348(8-9), 1994, pp. 546-548
The plasma emission detector (PED) has been shown to be an element spe
cific detector for supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC). The commo
nly used eluents (CO2 and N2O) tend to disturb the He plasma; two diff
erent discharge tubes were tested in an attempt to overcome this probl
em. Promising results were obtained with a concentric dual flow torch
design for the element specific detection of Cl, H, and C containing a
nalytes using N2O as SFC mobile phase.