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Curtain Flow Column: Optimization of Efficiency and Sensitivity
Published on: June 12, 2016
The statistical theory of linear capillary chromatography with uniform stationary phase
1Institute of Nuclear Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics, Mianyang, Sichuan 621900, China. chen_yinliang@hotmail.com
Abstract:
Based on the random walk model and probability theory, general relations between the moments of column residence time and the moments of step sojourn time and step displacement are established. And starting from the mass-balances principle of solute molecules in the mobile and stationary phases, the moments of step sojourn time and step displacement are derived and expressed in terms of the basic parameters. Substituting the step moments into the general relations, the moments of column residence time are then obtained. The expression of retention time is completely identical to the well-known, the expressions of second moment or HETP unite and generalize various expressions of stochastic theory and mass balance theory, and the third and forth moments are given in more exact form.
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