Temperature-Programmed Gas Chromatography

This handbook describes the first systematic treatment and further development of simple solutions to the key problems of column performance in temperature-programmed GC. In so doing, it answers such questions as: * At what temperature does a solute elute in a temperature-programmed analysis? * What is the value of the retention factor of eluting solute? * How wide are the peaks? * How large is the time distance between two peaks? * How do all these parameters depend on the heating rate?

Leonid M. Blumberg obtained his academic degrees in electrical engineering and training in mathematics from leading institutions of higher education in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 1977, he immigrated to USA and joined Hewlett-Packard Co. as an electrical engineer. Later he became a resident theoretician responsible for optimization of GC instrumentation and analytical methods. In this capacity, he participated in defining several new GC instruments.
After leaving HP in 1998, Dr. Blumberg founded a consulting company, Fast GC Consulting, and continued the development of theoretical foundation for optimization of conventional, fast and multi-dimensional GC where he is a world leading expert.
Leonid Blumberg authored 50 scientific publications and patented 19 inventions.