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A Comparison of Gas Chromatography-Based Methods of Analyzing Hydrocarbon Species
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Gas chromatographic methods for analyzing hydrocarbon species in vehicle exhaust emissions were compared in terms of their collection efficiency, detection limit, repeatability and number of species detected using cylinder gas and tailpipe emission samples. The main methods compared were a Tenax cold trap injection (TCT) method (C5-C12 HCs) and a cold trap injection (CTI) method (C2-C4 HCs; C5-C12 HCs). Our own direct (DIR) method was used to confirm the collection efficiencies. Both methods yielded good results, but the CTI method showed low collection efficiency for some C2-C4 HCs. Measurement of individual species is needed with this method for accurate analysis of tailpipe emissions. Both the CTI method and the TCT method combined with the DIR method for determining C2-C4 HCs yielded nearly the same ozone specific reactivity values for the NMHC species analyzed.
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Koike, N., Ito, M., and Inoue, T., "A Comparison of Gas Chromatography-Based Methods of Analyzing Hydrocarbon Species," SAE Technical Paper 940740, 1994, https://doi.org/10.4271/940740.Also In
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