Conclusion

Gas chromatography is the benchmark method for analyzing volatile compounds. Its equipment, which has been fairly standardized for over two decades, is of proven quality and reliability. A single instrument can include an arsenal of components (injectors, detectors, etc.) enabling it to cope with the automated analysis of gaseous, liquid or solid samples.

The contribution of information technology facilitates the development of analysis methods, through precise control of all chromatograph components and fine programming of all events required for analysis. Artificial intelligence is part of this, facilitating the processing of the chromatograms obtained, and the analysis of the complex data collected. Thanks to the computational power of computers, chromatograms can be compared, and information not necessarily immediately apparent can be extracted. To this end,...