Several analytical instruments (like pyrolyzers, thermobalances, differential thermal analyzers, or calorimeters, and sometimes simply temperature-controlled reactors) can be on-line coupled to infrared spectrometers to perform evolved gas analysis (EGA). Advances in EGA techniques are currently proposed by the scientific literature because the possibility to on-line detect the nature of the released gases or vapors has become fundamental to proving a supposed reaction, either under isothermal or under heating conditions. In this review, recent analytical applications of evolved gas analysis performed by infrared spectroscopy (EGA-IR), selected among those published in the years 2013 to 2015, are collected.

FTIR-evolved gas analysis in recent thermoanalytical investigations

Cocaine profiling: Implementation of a predictive model by ATR-FTIR coupled with chemometrics in forensic chemistry.

Rice husk biomass torrefied without carrier gas: influence on physico-thermal properties as co-combusted renewable fuel

Several analytic instruments (like pyrolyzers, thermobalances, differential thermal analyzers or calorimeters, and sometimes even simply temperature-controlled reactors) can be on-line coupled to infrared or mass spectrometers to perform evolved gas analysis (EGA) because the possibility to on-line detect the nature of the released gases or vapors has become fundamental to prove a supposed reaction, either under isothermal or under heating conditions.

Stefano Materazzi

Papers

Spectroscopic Methods in Evolved Gas Analysis: Analytic Sciences and Chemometrics