-Various luminescence techniques based on the use of intermolecular energy transfer phenomena for detection in liquid streams are discussed. The two distinct methods based on room temperature phosphorescence in liquid phases (RTPL), the sensitized and quenched RTPL, are described. In particular the potential of phosphorescence quenching is wide. It will be demonstrated that this method has considerable promise for the determination of organic compounds, but also as a detector for selected inorganic ions, e.g., N02, S032, Pt2+ in ion chromatography. Furtheron attention is paid to photochemically generated or photosensitized reactions. It is shown that photocheraical reactions can be used as a special type of post-column derivatization, and improvements in both sensitivity and selectivity have been demonstrated. The mechanisms for photoreduction of anthraquinone by isopropanol and for the sensitized photo-oxygenation of ethanol are discussed.