Question #6d816
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Feb 8, 2017
-I am not a petroleum chemist, but here is my understanding of the procedure-
Explanation:
Step 1
You run a GC-FID on a control sample and measure the total area of all the hydrocarbon peaks.
Step 2
Run your degradation experiment. Then run a GC-FID on the degraded sample and measure the total area of all the hydrocarbon peaks.
Step 3
Calculate the degradation efficiency (
where