Since 1950s, off-line combustion techniques like Wickbold apparatus and Schoeninger flask for petrochemicals and petroleum products is popular. However, these techniques are very labor intensive and not cost effective in fast pace laboratories in modern times. The fully automated combustion ion chromatography (CIC) system presented here combines a highly efficient combustion system with the separation power of ion chromatography (IC). CIC allows for the simultaneous speciation of halides (F, Cl, Br and I) and sulfur compounds (as sulfate) from sub-ppm to per cent levels in any sample matrix.  Various applications for real world samples like Diesel fuel, gasoline, petroleum products, polymers will be presented.

CIC � combustion ion chromatography � new technique for trace level halides and sulfur detection in petroleum products

248th National Meeting (2014)

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