Evaluation of Jansson's method for resolving overlapped gas chromatographic peaks

In a previous paper,1 Jansson's method was used to deconvolve overlapped gas chromatographic peaks. It was found that this method gave improved performance over conventional techniques such as perpendicular drop and shoulder quantitation.2,3 This paper will present the results of a comprehensive test of Jansson's method using several sample mixtures. These results will be compared to what can be obtained by using shoulder quantitation, perpendicular drop or an instrument with a longer column. A relatively large number of tests will be performed for each of the four mentioned methods of peak resolution, so there will be a reasonable statistical basis for the goodness of Jansson's method to resolve fused gas chromatographic peaks for a given set of instrument conditions. A brief review of Jansson's method and the modeling of a gas chromatographic process will also be presented.