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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 10.
Published in final edited form as: Energy Fuels. 2016 Feb 19;30(3):2119–2126. doi: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.6b00043

Table 2.

Natural gas components and range of composition covered by ASTM D 1945-14. The ranges listed are for the method and not the acceptable ranges for commercial natural gas. Components are listed in order of retention times.

Component Mol %
helium 0.01 to 10
hydrogen 0.01 to 10
oxygen 0.01 to 20
nitrogen 0.01 to 100
carbon dioxide 0.01 to 20
methane 0.01 to 100
ethane 0.01 to 100
hydrogen sulfide 0.3 to 30
propane 0.01 to 100
isobutane 0.01 to 10
n-butane 0.01 to 10
neopentane 0.01 to 2
isopentane 0.01 to 2
n-pentane 0.01 to 2
hexane isomers 0.01 to 2
heptanes+ 0.01 to 1