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    Atomic Emission Detector

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    The atomic emission detector (AED) is a powerful and selective gas chromatography detector that is able to simultaneously determine the atomic emissions of many elements in analytes eluting from the GC column. The AED works by destroying compounds in a microwave-powered plasma cavity, exciting the atoms which then emit light of individual wavelengths. This emitted light is separated by a diffraction grating and detected by a photodiode array connected to a computer to produce chromatograms of element-specific peaks. Key components of the AED include the plasma chamber, cooling system, optics to focus and disperse light, and a photodiode array interfaced to analyze and record the separated atomic emission spectra.

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    The atomic emission detector (AED) is a powerful and selective gas chromatography detector that is able to simultaneously determine the atomic emissions of many elements in analytes eluting from the GC column. The AED works by destroying compounds in a microwave-powered plasma cavity, exciting the atoms which then emit light of individual wavelengths. This emitted light is separated by a diffraction grating and detected by a photodiode array connected to a computer to produce chromatograms of element-specific peaks. Key components of the AED include the plasma chamber, cooling system, optics to focus and disperse light, and a photodiode array interfaced to analyze and record the separated atomic emission spectra.

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    The atomic emission detector (AED) is a powerful and selective gas chromatography detector that is able to simultaneously determine the atomic emissions of many elements in analytes eluting from the GC column. The AED works by destroying compounds in a microwave-powered plasma cavity, exciting the atoms which then emit light of individual wavelengths. This emitted light is separated by a diffraction grating and detected by a photodiode array connected to a computer to produce chromatograms of element-specific peaks. Key components of the AED include the plasma chamber, cooling system, optics to focus and disperse light, and a photodiode array interfaced to analyze and record the separated atomic emission spectra.

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    The atomic emission detector (AED) is a powerful and selective gas chromatography detector that is able to simultaneously determine the atomic emissions of many elements in analytes eluting from the GC column. The AED works by destroying compounds in a microwave-powered plasma cavity, exciting the atoms which then emit light of individual wavelengths. This emitted light is separated by a diffraction grating and detected by a photodiode array connected to a computer to produce chromatograms of element-specific peaks. Key components of the AED include the plasma chamber, cooling system, optics to focus and disperse light, and a photodiode array interfaced to analyze and record the separated atomic emission spectra.

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    Atomic Emission Detector

    Atomic Emission Detector


    Introduction
    As capillary column gas chromatography takes its place as the major, highest reso-
    lution separation technique available for volatile, thermally stable compounds, the
    requirements for the sensitive and selective detection of these compounds in-
    creases. Since more and more complex mixtures can be successfully separated,
    subsequent chromatograms (output of a chromatographic separation) are increas-
    ingly more complex. Therefore, the need to differentiate between the sample com-
    ponents using the GC detector as a means of compounds discriminating is more
    and more common. In addition, each detector has its own characteristics (selectiv-
    ity, sensitivity, linear range, stability, cost, etc.) that helps in a decision about which
    detector to use.

    One of the newest additions to the gas chromatographer’s arsenal is the atomic
    emission detector (AED). This detector, while quite expensive compared to other
    commercially available GC detectors, is an extremely powerful alternative. FOR
    INSTANCE, Instead of measuring simple gas phase (carbon containing) ions cre-
    ated in a flame as with the flame ionization detector, or the change in background
    current because of electronegative element capture of thermal electrons as with the
    electron capture detector, the AED has a much wider applicability because it is
    based on the detection of atomic emissions.

    The strength of the AED lies in the detector’s ability to simultaneously determine
    the atomic emissions of many of the elements in analytes that elute from a GC
    capillary column (called eluants or solutes in some books). As eluants come off the
    capillary column they are fed into a microwave powered plasma (or discharge)
    cavity where the compounds are destroyed and their atoms are excited by the en-
    ergy of the plasma. The light that is emitted by the excited particles is separated
    into individual lines via a photodiode array. The associated computer then sorts out
    the individual emission lines and can produce chromatograms made up of peaks
    from eluants that contain only a specific element.
    Instrumentation
    The components of the AED include 1) an interface for the incoming capillary GC
    column to the microwave induced plasma chamber, 2) the microwave chamber
    itself, 3) a cooling system for that chamber, 4) a diffraction grating and associated
    optics to focus then disperse the spectral atomic lines, and 5) a position adjustable
    photodiode array interfaced to a computer. The microwave cavity cooling is re-
    quired because much of the energy focused into the cavity is converted to heat.

    Schematic of a gas chromatographic atomic emission detector

    discharge cooling jacket


    microwave
    mirror cavity

    atomic capillary
    emissions column
    microwave from GC
    "coils"

    positionable diffraction
    photodiode grating
    array

    to computer

    These notes were written by Dr. Thomas G. Chasteen at Sam Houston State Uni-
    versity, Huntsville, Texas.

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