Determination of vanadium(V) and chromium(VI) in a single sample on a fibrous ion exchanger disk

The determination of vanadium(V) and chromium(VI) in a single sample on a support disk was studied. Polyacrylonitrile fiber filled with an AV-17 anion exchanger was used as a solid phase. After adsorption, the elements were successively detected in the solid phase by color complexation reactions of vanadium with 8-hydroxyquinoline-5-sulfonic acid and chromium with 1.5-diphenylcarbazide. A procedure was developed for the adsorption-spectroscopic determination of 0.04–0.4 μg/mL vanadium(V) and 0.01–0.05 μm/mL chromium(VI) at V: Cr ratios of 1: 1 to 10: 1 in the dynamic mode. The limits of detections for vanadium and chromium were 0.04 and 0.005 μg/mL, respectively. It was shown that the background salt content of potable water had no appreciable effect; no preliminary sample preparation was required.