Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were determined in a petroleum vacuum distillation residue using the Agilent Multiple Heart-Cutting (MHC) 2D-LC solution. The extract was analyzed in the first dimension by normal-phase LC. Well-defined fractions from this separation were stored in a set of sample loops, then transferred online to the second-dimension separation where the PAHs were separated from each other and from other sample constituents using reversed-phase LC on a dedicated PAH column. Detection was performed with diode-array detection (DAD) as the monitor detector after the first dimension, and with fluorescence detection (FLD) after the second dimension. An additional column switching valve enabled backflush of the first-dimension normal-phase column to remove highly polar components. The Agilent 1290 Infinity 2D-LC solution enabled automated, selective, and quantitative analysis of the PAHs in the complex petroleum vacuum distillation residue sample.
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