Abstract:
A liquid chromatographic system is provided including catalytically combining hydrogen and oxygen gases in the chromatography eluent stream in a catalytic gas elimination chamber, to form water and thereby reduce the gas content in the eluent stream. Also, a liquid ion chromatographic system in which the effluent from the detector is recycled to a membrane suppressor and then is mixed with a source of eluent for recycle to the chromatographic column.
Abstract:
Selected polyvalent anions or cations are removed from a liquid sample stream as a pretreatment for the analysis of the liquid sample stream. A stream containing anions of interest, precipitable anions (e.g. sulfate ions) to be removed and an added displacing salt having a polyvalent cation flow through a cation exchange resin bed having precipitable exchangeable polyvalent ions (e.g. barium ions). The polyvalent cation (e.g. calcium) of the displacing salt exchanges with the cation of the resin, which reacts with the precipitable anion to form a precipitate which is retained in the bed. The anions of interest are subsequently separated and analyzed. The invention is also applicable to the removal of precipitable cations (e.g. barium ions) by reversing the roles of the anions and cations.