Determination of heavy polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by non-aqueous reversed phase liquid chromatography: Application and limitation in refining streams
| Autor: | Thunayyan A. Al-Qunaysi, Omer Refa Koseoglu, Hendrik Muller, Saroj K. Panda |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Chromatography
Reverse-Phase Chromatography 010401 analytical chemistry Organic Chemistry Oil and Gas Industry General Medicine Fractionation Reversed-phase chromatography Ovalene 010402 general chemistry 01 natural sciences Biochemistry Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance Coronene Refinery Chemistry Techniques Analytical Mass Spectrometry 0104 chemical sciences Analytical Chemistry chemistry.chemical_compound Ultraviolet visible spectroscopy chemistry Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Refining (metallurgy) |
| Zdroj: | Journal of chromatography. A. 1533 |
| ISSN: | 1873-3778 |
| Popis: | The heavy polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (HPAHs) cause detrimental effects to hydrocracker operations by deactivating the catalysts and depositing in the downstream of the reactor/ exchangers. Therefore, it is essential to continuously monitor the accumulation of HPAHs in a hydrocracker unit. To accurately measure the concentration of HPAHs, the development of a fast and reliable analytical method is inevitable. In this work, an analytical method based on non-aqueous reversed phase chromatography in combination with high resolution Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FT-ICR MS) was developed. As a first step, five different types of stationary phases were evaluated for the separation of HPAHs in non-aqueous mode and the best suited phase was further used for the fractionation of HPAHs in a fractionator bottom sample obtained from a refinery hydrocracker unit. The eight major fractions or peaks obtained from the separation were further characterized by UV spectroscopy and FT-ICR MS and the compounds in the fractions were tentatively confirmed as benzoperylene, coronene, methylcoronene, naphthenocoronene, benzocoronene, dibenzoperylene, naphthocoronene and ovalene. The developed liquid chromatography method can be easily adapted in a refinery laboratory for the quantitation of HPAHs in hydrocracking products. The method was further tested to check the interference of sulfur aromatics and/or large alkylated aromatic hydrocarbons on the determination of HPAHs in hydrocracking products. |
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