In this study, the performance of fast gas chromatography system was evaluated using VOC standards prepared in both liquid and gaseous phase. When the liquid‐phase VOC standards were analyzed by both direct injection and HS‐SPME method, all the chromatographic separation was completed within 4 minutes. The calibration experiments were conducted further using gaseous standard of BTX. The calibration results derived by direct injection method generally showed good linearities, regardless of phases, while it was not the case for HS‐SPME method. In case of liquid‐phase standard, MDL values for direct injection and HSSPME method were calculated in the range of 0.07~0.19 to 0.63~3.76 ng, respectively. In contrast, MDL values for gaseous standard were 0.27~0.45 and 1.94~6.90, respectively. The reproducibility of our method, when expressed in terms RSE, showed above 5 %. When the sensitivity of different techniques is compared, the calibration slope values of BTX decreased on the order: direct injection of liquid‐phase standard > HSSPME method of liquid‐phase standard > direct injection of gaseous standard > HS‐SPME method of gaseous standard. Although fast GC is very efficient to reduce the total running time significantly, extended studies are desirable to improve its reproducibility.

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