In this analysis, a thermal desorption process is imposed on the polymer sample during 15 minutes at 150° C. in an oven. Volatile organic compounds are extracted from the sample by an imposed helium flux and are captured in an adsorbent cartridge TENAX cooled at ?30° C.
In a second process, volatile compounds are injected in a chromatographic separation column via a rapid heating process of the cartridge at 230° C. The analytes are separated onto the column before being detected by FID.
Results: The compounds are identified based on their retention times in comparison with previously determined retention times of n-paraffins, in the same experimental conditions. The quantification of the components is performed using an external calibration curve (linear) established using 1-hexene as reference.
Chromatographic Analysis Conditions: