Presentation Profile
Determination of Trace Contaminants in High Purity Ethylene Using GC-ICP-MS
Currently Scheduled: 10/12/2021 - 3:00 PM - 3:20 PM
Room: Poster Parkway
Main Author
William Geiger - CONSCI
Abstract:
Ethylene is the largest production chemical in the world. More than half of this production goes toward the manufacture of polyethylene one of the most important polymers used today. Catalysts are susceptible to poisoning by contaminants such as arsine (AsH3), phosphine (PH3), hydrogen sulfide (H2S), and carbonyl sulfide (COS). The goal of an analytical method to measure these contaminants would be to use a single instrument, a single column set, and a single tune to measure all of these with a detection limit of less than one part per billion using an ICP-MS as a GC detector.
