The development of pyrolysis fast gas chromatography for analysis of synthetic polymers

The development of fast gas chromatography (fast GC) in recent years has brought an opportunity to speed up the separation process for all gas chromatography-related techniques. Pyrolysis-gas chromatography (Py-GC) is one of the techniques that heavily utilize the gas chromatograph to separate the pyrolysates. If all the applications in traditional Py-GC can be successfully replaced by Py-fast GC, the experimental time can be greatly decreased. The development of fast GC for pyrolysis applications in synthetic polymers has been summarized in this report. Several polymers have been demonstrated as examples to show the advantages of Py-fast GC. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.