Separations of petroleum products involving supercritical fluid chromatography

SummaryThis paper gives a survey of the most attractive trends and applications of supercritical fluid chromatography in the petroleum industry: simulated distillation, group-type analysis and related applications including the implementation of multidetection in a so-called “hypernated” system, as well as the hyphenation to GC×GC for improved group-type separation, SFC×GC and first promising SFC×SFC results. Some specific technical information related to the use of capillary columns or conventional packed columns in combination with FID (or detectors that require decompression and in some instances splitting of the mobile phase prior detection) is also provided.

► Survey of the most attractive trends in SFC in the petroleum industry.
► Recent application of hyphenated techniques to SFC.
► Promising applications such as SFC×SFC or SFC×GC.
► Presentation of SFC techniques used in routine analysis.