Application of Routine Analysis Procedures to a Direct Mass Spectrometry Technique: Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry (SIFT-MS)

In recent years the environmental and human health impacts of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) have become more apparent, resulting in increased analysis demand. The gold-standard chromatographic techniques continue to be employed for most laboratory analyses. However, they made only modest gains productivity over years, these are primarily due automated sample preparation injection. Alternatively, significant VOC through faster reduced instrument maintenance could achieved by adopting direct mass spectrometry such as selected ion flow tube (SIFT-MS). This article demonstrates that routine quality control checks, method validation, standard additions, internal standards readily applied SIFT-MS, simplifying adoption technique. addition, workflows chromatographically challenging species simplified using SIFT-MS. Sample throughputs two- 25-fold depending on analytical procedure.