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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2013
Ohio University, Athens, OH (US);
Ohio University, Athens, OH (US);
Abstract
A mass spectrometry-based method of directly online detecting fuel cell reaction products includes passing a reactant sample () through a fuel cell () to form reaction products that exit the fuel cell () in an output stream (). The method also includes adding a derivatizing reagent () to the output stream () to form a derivatized output stream (), wherein the derivatizing reagent () reacts with a potential reaction product to thereby form a derivatized reaction product if the potential reaction product is present. The method further includes directing a charged solvent () toward the derivatized output stream () to thereby ionize the derivatized output stream () and directing the ionized, derivatized output stream () to a mass spectrometer (), the mass spectrometer () being configured to detect the derivatized reaction product.