CORESTA Congress, Sapporo, 2012, Smoke Science/Product Technology Groups, SSPT 32
Hyphenation of a cigarette smoking simulator and a micro-probe between a time-of-flight mass spectrometer for the analysis of pyrolysis and combustion products from a burning cigarette
(1) Joint Mass Spectrometry Centre, Chair of Analytical Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany; (2) British American Tobacco, Group R&D, Southampton, UK; (3) Joint Mass Spectrometry Centre, Cooperation Group “Analysis of Complex Molecular Systems”, Institute of Ecological Chemistry, Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Centre for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
The first part of the work addresses a coupling between a cigarette smoking simulator and a time-of-flight mass spectrometer which was constructed to allow the sampling and analysis of fresh tobacco smoke under simulated burning conditions. With...