Data processing device for comprehensive two-dimensional chromatograph

Abstract

In a GC×GC data processor (), a modulation time estimation unit () creates a one-dimensional chromatogram from chromatogram data items collected by a comprehensive two-dimensional GC, and retrieves a shift time on which a peak position after an entire curve of the chromatogram being shifted in a temporal axis direction coincides with a peak position of the peak on the original chromatogram. Since the resolution of a primary column () is low, the same compound is introduced into a secondary column () in consecutive modulation times. Accordingly, on the one-dimensional chromatogram, peaks originating from the same compound appear in the respective consecutive modulation times. The interval between the peaks substantially coincides with the modulation time. Therefore, the shift time retrieved as described above is regarded as the modulation time. Thus, the modulation time is automatically estimated from the chromatogram data items, thereby negating the need of user input or capture from an analysis control unit ().