I have used PEG as supposed it would be stable in ph 2 and ph 7 and by shifting their peak can understand ho much is the retention time, but have nt yet get any good results
It depends on the column, your protein variant (what is the pI) and yet the best would be to experimentally determine the elution, e.g. by SDS-PAGE (if it's sufficiently pure or in high quantities), Western blot or for example by measuring iron content in your fractions.
Doesn't iron have some specific absorbance? Maybe you could measure directly UV absorption during elution?