Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 1997, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (7): 1022.

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Development of Sampling Techniques for Trace Organic Pollutants in Water──Analysis of PAHs in Water by PUF

WANG Yi-Ru1, WANG Xiao-Ru1, Frank SC. Lee2   

  1. 1. Department of Chemistry, The Research Laboratory of SEDC of Analytical Sciencefor Material and Life Chemistry, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005;
    2. Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
  • Received:1996-12-09 Online:1997-07-24 Published:1997-07-24

Abstract: The article reports the application of PUF (polyurethane foam) for PAHs sam-pling in water.The technique is found to be suitable for the sampling of PAHs and othertrace organics in different water samples.The DL(detection limit) for pyrene-d10 in 1 Lwa-ter is 26 ng/Lwhen GC/MSis used for analysis.Much lower MDLs can be achieved whenHPLC-Fluorescence is used for PAHanalysis- The observed MDLs for benzo (k)fluoran-thene, benzo (a) pyrene, dibenz (a, h) anthracene and benzo(ghi) perylene in 1 Lwater are0.86, 0.56, 2.1, 3.0 ng/Lrespectively.HPLC-Fluorescence analysis also gives very litterbackground interference by PUF.PUFsampling coupled with HPLC-fluorescence analysis isthere fore promising method for the measurement of ultratrace levels of PAHs in aquatic envi-ronment.

Key words: PUF, Solid-phase extraction, Water analysis, PAHs

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