The Combined Use of High Efficiency Liquid and Capillary Gas Chromatography for the Determination of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Automotive Exhaust Condensates and Other Hydrocarbon Mixtures

1974 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 715-721 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Doran ◽  
N. G. McTaggart
Keyword(s):  
Gas Chromatography ◽  
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Capillary Gas Chromatography ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Automotive Exhaust ◽  
Hydrocarbon Mixtures ◽  
Combined Use ◽  
Polycyclic Aromatic

Determination of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Wastewater by Single-Drop Microextraction Coupled to Capillary Gas Chromatography

2013 ◽  
Vol 838-841 ◽  
pp. 2582-2585 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Qi Sun ◽  
Bo Qiao ◽  
De Si Sun
Keyword(s):  
Gas Chromatography ◽  
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Capillary Gas Chromatography ◽  
Preparation Technique ◽  
Single Drop ◽  
Single Drop Microextraction ◽  
Relative Standard ◽  
Polycyclic Aromatic

This study describes an analytical method employing capillary gas chromatography (GC) using flame ionization detection (FID) that has been developed for the simultaneous determination of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in wastewater, including naphthalene, 1-naphthol, 2-naphthol and anthracene. For this purpose, single-drop microextraction (SDME) was applied as a sample preparation technique. The SDME parameters such as types of extractants, volume of the microdroplet size, extraction time, stir rate and immersion depth of needle point were investigated and optimized. The method was linear in the ranges from 2.3 ×10-3to 70.0 μg·mL-1for naphthalene, 1-naphthol and anthracene, and 2.2 ×10-3to 50.0 μg·mL-1for 2-naphthol withR2≥ 0.9990. The SDME procedure allowed efficient recovery of the investigated PAHs ranging between 94 % and 104 % with a relative standard deviation (RSD) ≤4.2 for actual wastewater sampes spiked with 5, 10 and 20 μg·mL-1of PAHs, respectively. These results showed the potential of this technique for PAHs monitoring in wastewater samples. Furthermore, the investigated methods are simple, reliable, reproducible, and not expensive.

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