Biomass energy, chemical recycling, and other new technologies are being researched and developed around the world in an effort to achieve a carbon-neutral society. However, there is concern that, unlike conventional fossil fuels, new raw materials generated from such R&D efforts may contain hydrocarbon mixtures that could have a detrimental effect on product quality or production processes. Of the hydrocarbons involved, it can be particularly difficult to detect heterocyclic compounds selectively with high sensitivity. Shimadzu’s unique ELEM-SPOT system is the world’s first Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer (GC-MS) with an element-selective combustion unit (EL-30) included for selectively analyzing nitrogen-containing compounds or oxygenated compounds in complex hydrocarbon compounds with high sensitivity.
