Simultaneous Determination of Ruthenium, Zinc and Zirconium in Waste Zirconium Dioxide Loaded Ruthenium-Zinc Catalysts Using Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry
A technique for simultaneous determination of Ru, Zn and Zr in waste Ru-Zn/ZrO2catalysts using ICP-OES after sample digestion by high temperature fusion with KOH-KNO3mixture was described. Such experiment conditions were investigated as the influence of sample digestion methods, fusion time, fusion temperature, the dosage of KOH-KNO3mixture and interfering ions on the determination. Under the optimized conditions, the limits of detection (LODs) of Ru, Zn and Zr for tested solutions were 11, 8 and 5 ng mL-1, respectively. The relative standard deviations (RSDs) for Ru, Zn and Zr were 2.01, 2.55 and 1.92 % (CRu, Zn,Zr= 1 mg L-1, n = 7), respectively. The linear ranges of calibration graphs for Ru, Zn and Zr were 0 ~ 100.00 mg L-1, 0 ~ 50.00 mg L-1and 0~60.00 mg L-1, respectively. The proposed method was applied to determine the practical samples with good recoveries and satisfactory results.