Abstract—Resolution and quantitative determination of benzoic and sorbic acid preservatives in a mixture with overlapped High Performance Liquid Chromatography- Photo Diode Array detector (HPLC-PDA) Chromatogram was done using a newly developed algorithm. This algorithm had been tested both on a simulated data as well as on a real one dimensional Chromatographic experimental data and the results were compared with the results of another Iterative Curve fitting algorithm developed and applied. The proposed method seems to be more efficient for both qualitative and quantitative analysis of a complex chemical mixture containing severely overlapping components.

Index Terms—Algorithm, overlapped Chromatogram, quantification, resolution.

Department of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Pondicherry Engineering College, Puducherry, India 605014

Cite: S. Anbumalar, P. Ramesh babu and R. Anandanatarajan, "An Algorithm for the Resolution of a Mixture of Preservatives with Overlapped Chromatogram," International Journal of Computer and Electrical Engineering vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 137-140, 2011.