Gas chromatography is widely applied to separate, identify, and quantify components of samples in a timely manner. Increasing demand for analytical throughput, instrument portability, environmental sustainability, and more economical analysis necessitates the development of new gas chromatography instrumentation. The applications of resistive column heating technologies have been espoused for nearly thirty years and resistively heated gas chromatography has been commercially available for the last ten years. Despite this lengthy period of existence, resistively heated gas chromatography has not been universally adopted. This low rate of adoption may be partially ascribed to the saturation of the market with older convection oven technology, coupled with other analytical challenges such as sampling, injection, detection and data processing occupying research. This article assesses the advantages and applications of resistive heating in gas chromatography and discusses practical considerations associated with adoption of this technology. © 2013 Elsevier B.V.

Item Type:	Refereed Article
Keywords:	gas chromatography, resistive heating, low thermal mass, portable, fast analysis, high throughput, applications
Research Division:	Chemical Sciences
Research Group:	Analytical Chemistry
Research Field:	Separation Science
Objective Division:	Expanding Knowledge
Objective Group:	Expanding Knowledge
Objective Field:	Expanding Knowledge in the Chemical Sciences
UTAS Author:	Jacobs, MR (Mr Matthew Jacobs)
UTAS Author:	Hilder, EF (Professor Emily Hilder)
UTAS Author:	Shellie, RA (Associate Professor Robert Shellie)
ID Code:	87728
Year Published:	2013
Web of Science® Times Cited:	15
Deposited By:	Austn Centre for Research in Separation Science
Deposited On:	2013-12-04
Last Modified:	2014-05-27
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