The sample is Diesel Exhaust Particle, it contains both organic and inorganic components. The organic components include PAH, aliphatic hydrocarbons. The inorganic components include metals and metal oxides. It may also contain organometallic complexes.
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T. H. Al-Noor , I'm not able to open the website you mentioned.
Yes it is a good method. Please check our articles. Hari Prasath Boopal
In my opinion Maybe yes maybe no because there are a lot of problems such as impurity which affect it
TGA shoud be suitable. If you check under air you need to ramp the temp in a constant rate (usually 5 degrees/min is ok) to high temprature (let's say ~500C) and measure isotherm for ~30 minutes . While the organic part will evaporate or will be burnt, the inorganic part will remain as metal/metal-oxide. I must say this can be tricky because at high temperature the metal can undergo oxidation to metal oxides and then you will see some weight gain, so some optimizations should be done.
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