Further Improvements on the Possibility of Carrying Out Alcohols’ Qualitative Analyses Using Fuel Cells, of the DCMFC Type, Coupled to Chemometric Analysis
摘要
The qualitative recognition, of different organic substances, presenting one alcoholic group in their molecule, such as, for example, several aliphatic alcohols, by using only a Direct Catalytic Methanol Fuel Cell (DCMFC) type and an appropriate chemometric processing of the experimental data, by means of ComDim program (a multi-block generalization of Principal Component Analysis), has increasingly been proposed, as a valid and simple analytical tool for carrying out qualitative analysis, of several different organic aliphatic alcohols. Two new improvements have been introduced, for enhancing the accuracy, and/or speed, of the proposed format.