Guided Discussion 2: GC×GC, will it ever be in common usein the petroleum laboratories? (Lenny Kouwenhoven, Jop Bezuijen, Christina Kelly, Jon Sims, MDCW 2023)

• 🎤 Presenters: Lenny Kouwenhoven¹, Jop Bezuijen¹, Christina Kelly², Jon Sims³ (¹Petroleum Analyzer Company, ²LECO Corporation, ³Exxon.)

💡 Book in your calendar: 15th Multidimensional Chromatography Workshop (MDCW) January 2024

15th Multidimensional Chromatography (MDC) Workshop 2024

Description

Legislation, commercial contracts or process control require standardized methods or procedures to ensure product results from all parties involved can be compared to meet contract requirements and resolve disputes.

Standardized method development and adoption is a collaborative process which requires buy-in from many competing interests before new methods are accepted. Innovative or unfamiliar technologies need to overcome market resistance to change, bureaucratic inertia within standardization committees, and the tendency of legacy market suppliers to protect their economic interest. All of these pre-existing stakeholders need to be brought into agreement to allow the new technology into the market space. With these difficulties as background, Lenny Kouwenhoven will talk about her real world experience in bringing the first GCxGC test method for the petroleum market through the ASTM method development process. In addition, the first preliminary ILS data for the GCxGC method will be presented and discussed. The path forward for European and Asian adoption will be overviewed and contrasted with ASTM procedures.