Overview
Thermogravimetric Analysis, or TGA, is a powerful analytical tool for measuring changes in a sample’s mass as its environmental temperature shifts. When coupled with other instrumental techniques such as mass spectrometers and infrared spectrometers, chemical analysis of the evolved gases is achieved. These hyphenated techniques have a long history in thermal analysis. In addition, chemically separating the TGA off-gases with a gas chromatograph prior to injection into a mass spectrometer can further enhance the chemical information obtained. The thermal analysis laboratory interested in off-gas analysis can benefit from having multiple hyphenated techniques available and may even connect more than one technique to the output of a single TGA. This talk will focus on comparing these techniques and illustrating the types of data obtained from them.
About the Speaker
Dr. Gray Slough is a Thermal Analysis Product Specialist with over 20 years of experience at TA Instruments. He received his Bachelors in Physics from the University of Texas before continuing on to the University of Virginia to receive his Doctorate. He is the foremost expert at TA Instruments in Thermo-analytical techniques.
