Hyphenation of two simultaneously employed soft photo ionization mass spectrometers with thermal analysis of biomass and biochar

Thermochimica Acta

Volumn 551, Issue , 2013, Pages 155-163

  Fendt, Alois ^a,b,c   Geissler, Robert ^b,c   Streibel, Thorsten ^a,b   Sklorz, Martin ^a,b   Zimmermann, Ralf ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biomass pyrolysis; EGA; Lignin; REMPI; SPI

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC SPECIES; BIOCHAR; BIOMASS PYROLYSIS; COMPLEMENTARY TOOLS; EGA; EVOLVED GAS ANALYSIS; EXCIMER LIGHT; KINETIC STUDY; MASS SPECTRA; MULTIPHOTON IONIZATION; ON-LINE ANALYSIS; ORGANIC MOLECULES; REMPI; RESONANCE ENHANCED; SELECTIVE ANALYSIS; SINGLE PHOTON IONIZATION; SOFT IONIZATION; SPI; TEMPERATURE PROFILES; THERMO-BALANCE; TIME-OF-FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETERS; VUV LIGHT;

BIOMASS; DESORPTION; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGNIN; MASS SPECTROMETERS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHOTOIONIZATION; THERMOANALYSIS;

IONIZATION OF GASES;

EID: 84870667069     PISSN: 00406031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tca.2012.10.002     Document Type: Article

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