Sequential Extraction-Spectrofluorimetric Determination of Mercury Using Cryptand Ethers

Abstract

A spectrofluorimetric study of the extraction of mercury with 1,2-dichloroethane as an ion-pair formed between the cryptand 2.2.1-mercury complex and the eosinate counter-ion is described.

The detection limit for mercury is 0.7 ng/ml, and the linear working range up to 125 ng/ml of mercury.

The relative standard deviation is found to be 2.0% at the 100 ng/ml level. The proposed method has been tested for the determination of mercury in coal.     

氧弹燃烧–原子荧光光谱法测定煤中汞含量

建立氧弹燃烧–原子荧光光谱法测定煤中汞含量的方法。用氧弹燃烧分解样品,汞释放后以硝酸溶液吸收,以0.5 g/L硼氢化钾溶液作为还原剂,体积分数5%的硝酸溶液为载流液,用原子荧光光谱法定量测定。方法检出限为0.02μg/kg,对标准物质GBW 11156(标准值0.32μg/g)进行平行测定,测定结果的平均值为0.318μg/g,相对标准偏差为7.3%(n=6),加标回收率为91.5%~106.5%。该方法简单、干扰少,准确度和精密度良好,可用于煤中汞的测定。     

电感耦合等离子体质谱法测定土壤中镉和总汞

建立电感耦合等离子质谱法测定土壤中镉和总汞的方法。土壤样品在电热板上用盐酸和硝酸于100℃低温消解,重量法定容,取上清液上机测定。镉和总汞含量分别在0.502~10.20 ng/g,0.212~5.010 ng/g范围内线性良好,相关系数(r2)大于0.999,土壤中镉和总汞的检出限分别为0.021,0.002μg/g,测定结果的相对标准偏差分别为1.99%,5.57%(n=6),加标回收率分别为97.5%~101.1%,87.5%~92.9%。该方法样品处理简单快捷,检出限低,准确度和精密度高,适合土壤中镉和总汞含量的测定。     

Determination of Mercury(II) in Drinking Water by Total Reflection X-ray Fluorescence Spectrometry and Liquid–Liquid Microextraction

The total reflection X-ray fluorescence determination of mercury(II) in drinking water at concentrations of 7?×?10^?2 to 3.0?µg/L is reported. The mercury(II) preconcentration protocol includes directly suspended droplet microextraction with benzene as a molecular iodine complex. The proposed approach is highly selective. The elements Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Zn, and Pb at concentrations up to 0.1?g/L did not interfere with the extraction of trace mercury(II). The method is characterized by high sensitivity (limit of detection of 21?ng/L) and suitable reproducibility (relative standard deviation of 0.12 for 100?ng/L). The accuracy of the results was confirmed by recovery and the method of standard addition.     

微波萃取高效液相色谱-冷原子荧光光谱法测定沉积物中甲基汞和无机汞

建立了微波萃取高效液相色谱-冷原子荧光光谱法(MAE-HPLC-CVAFS)测定沉积物中甲基汞(MeHg+)和无机汞(Hg2+)的方法。以0.1%(V/V)2-巯基乙醇为萃取剂,用于沉积物样品中汞形态的萃取,在80℃下萃取8 min,萃取液直接注入HPLC-CVAFS系统分析。在优化条件下,MeHg+和Hg2+的检出限分别为0.58和0.48 ng/g;加标回收率分别为96.2%和95.8%;RSD(n=6)分别为5.7%和4.1%。对标准参考物质(IAEA-405和ERM-CC580)的分析结果与推荐值一致。本方法简单、快速、准确、检出限低,抗干扰能力强,具有很好的实用性和推广价值。     

The determination of total gaseous mercury in air at background levels

A method is described for the determination of the total gaseous mercury in air at concentrations ranging from ca. 0.1 ng m^-3 to 1μg m^-3. The method is based on the collection of mercury species on gold-coated quartz wool followed by detection with an atomic absorption detector. The collection efficiencies for mercury, dimethylmercury, methyl-mercury(II) chloride, and mercury(II) chloride are nearly quantitative at flow rates up to 10 1 min^-1 and at temperatures up to 50°C. The absolute detection limit of the method is 20 pg of mercury. Under field conditions the precision of the analytical procedure was 14.5% (n=5) for 400-l samples of air and a mercury concentration of 1.5 ng m^-3. Measurements of the mercury distribution in the atmosphere show an ambient background level in clean air masses of 1.0–4.0 ng m^-3.     

300 MW等级燃煤机组煤粉炉与循环流化床锅炉汞排放特性比较

选取某地330 MW煤粉炉(PC炉)和350 MW循环流化床锅炉(CFB)的燃煤电厂进行汞排放特性的研究。采用30B法和安大略法对两个燃煤电厂的除尘器入口、除尘器出口、脱硫塔出口和湿式电除尘器出口的烟气进行了取样和汞浓度分析,采集了入炉煤和副产物底渣、飞灰及脱硫石膏样品。通过样品中汞含量的分布,探讨了PC炉与CFB锅炉机组现有污染物控制设备对汞的协同脱除作用。结果表明,350 MW CFB电厂除尘器出口烟气平均汞浓度降低至0.43μg/m~3,布袋除尘器对汞的捕获效率达到98.9%,相应的燃烧副产物中飞灰是汞的主要富集对象。对于330 MW PC炉电厂,除尘器入口和除尘器出口烟气汞浓度均高于350 MW CFB电厂,烟气汞浓度从除尘器入口、除尘器出口到脱硫塔出口依次降低,在脱硫塔出口烟气汞浓度降低至0.42μg/m~3,静电除尘器和湿式脱硫塔对烟气汞的捕获效率分别为75.0%和22.4%,相应的产物中飞灰和脱硫石膏中汞都有一定程度的富集。     

电热蒸发-直接进样-冷原子吸收光谱法测定土壤以及沉积物中汞

采用传统分析仪器测定汞元素,需要对样品进行化学消解,存在操作繁杂、效率低以及易交叉污染等问题。故建立了电热蒸发-直接进样-HGA-100测汞仪测定土壤以及沉积物中汞的方法,无需对样品进行化学前处理,降低环境污染。通过优化HGA-100测汞仪参数条件,汞质量浓度在0~20ng以及20~200ng,相关系数优于0.998,准确称量样品0.05g(精确至0.000 1g),方法检出限为0.5μg/kg,相对标准偏差1.6%~4.6%,加标回收率在90.1%~100%。方法用于对土壤和沉积物标准物质测定,结果与标准值相符。方法高效、准确,可用于测定土壤以及沉积物中的汞。     

催化裂解-金汞齐富集-冷原子吸收光谱仪测定土壤样品中总汞含量

为避免汞消解过程中产生的蒸发损失及前处理过程中产生器具与样品污染,通过配制汞总量为0～2、0～15和25～1 023 ng的三种不同汞浓度系列的标准工作曲线,选取9个土壤样品、3种国家土壤有证标准物质,同一样品分别进行6组平行测定,并抽取3个土壤样品进行3种不同浓度加标回收实验,以对其方法精密度和准确度进行论证,建立了催化裂解-金汞齐富集-冷原子吸收光谱法即直接测汞仪测定土壤样品中汞含量的方法。结果显示,仪器信号值与Hg总量之间均呈良好的线性关系。根据仪器多次测定空白数据结果,按照称样量0.1 g计算,方法检出为0.09 ng/g;平行测定结果相对标准偏差均小于10%,土壤标准物质测定值与参考值均相符,不同浓度的加标回收率范围为69.0%～97.0%。方法可用于批量土壤样品中汞含量的快速测定,精密度和准确度可满足测定要求,且实验过程中无需前处理消解,操作方便、快速高效。     

300 MW燃煤电站砷、汞排放特征研究

对某300 MW燃煤电站煤、底灰和静电除尘器(ESP)飞灰进行采样并测定了其中的砷、汞含量,同时应用Ontario Hydro Method (OHM) 标准方法和设备对ESP前后烟气中的砷、汞分布进行了直接采样和测试.对砷的检测结果表明,ESP飞灰中砷含量约6.68×10^-6,是原煤中砷含量的2.5倍左右,而底灰中砷含量仅为1.70×10^-6,ESP前烟气中砷含量约153.27 μg/m³,ESP后砷含量急剧降低为41.13 μg/m³;对汞的检测结果表明,原煤中汞含量约2.5×10^-7,飞灰、底灰中的汞含量分别约1.9×10^-7、1.5×10^-7;ESP前后烟气中总汞含量分别为5.49、5.21 μg/m³.砷在飞灰中明显富集,而汞在飞灰和底渣中均不具有富集效果.ESP单元具有明显的协同脱砷效果,平均脱除率约在71%左右,而对汞的协同脱除效果不明显.     

超声水浴-王水浸提-全自动测汞仪测定重度污染土壤中的总汞

为准确测定重度污染土壤中的总汞含量,本文建立了以超声水浴辅助王水浸提,使用全自动测汞仪测定的方法。 通过单因素实验考察了王水用量、超声时间和超声温度对土壤中总汞测定的影响,得到最佳前处理方法,最后应用建立的方法对重度污染土壤进行方法验证。确定了0.5 g土壤样品中加入5 mL的王水溶液,放入超声波清洗器中70℃水浴下超声提取70 min,使用超纯水定容至50mL的前处理方法,直接进样测定的实验方法。对该实验进行验证,结果表明,该方法汞低标准曲线汞含量在0～20ng范围内线性良好,相关系数R=0.9995;汞高标准曲线汞含量在20～150 ng范围内线性良好,相关系数R=0.9993;方法检出限为0.0055 mg/kg,方法定量下限为0.022 mg/kg;通过对土壤样品及土壤加标样品的测定,回收率为90.40～116.80%,表明该方法的准确度较高,RSD为1.89～3.34%（n=6）,表明该方法的精确度较高。超声水浴-王水浸提-全自动测汞仪法用于测定重度污染土壤中的总汞,前处理简单,自动化程度较高,可快速,高效的用于重度污染土壤总汞测定工作。     

吖啶红-罗丹明B荧光共振能量转移法测定汞

研究了吖啶红(供体)和罗丹明B(受体)之间荧光共振能量转移的最佳条件,建立了荧光共振能量转移猝灭法测定污水和废旧电池中痕量汞的方法。室温中,采用十六烷基三甲基溴化胺(CTMAB),在pH=7.0条件下,吖啶红与罗丹明B之间能产生有效的共振能量转移,汞离子的加入能使体系中罗丹明B荧光峰强猝灭从而测定汞的含量。汞离子浓度在0.05～2.5μg/mL范围内与罗丹明B荧光强度变化ΔF呈现良好线性关系(r=0.9997),检出限(3σ/K)为0.95ng/mL,加标回收率98.0%～104.5%。该方法可用于污水和废旧电池中痕量汞的测定。     

Speciation analysis of mercury in sediments using ionic‐liquid‐based vortex‐assisted liquid–liquid microextraction combined with high‐performance liquid chromatography and cold vapor atomic fluorescence spectrometry

An improved novel method based on ionic liquid vortex‐assisted liquid–liquid microextraction has been developed for the extraction of methylmercury, ethylmercury and inorganic mercury in sediment samples prior to analysis by high‐performance liquid chromatography with cold vapor atomic fluorescence spectrometry. In this work, mercury species were firstly complexed with dithizone, and the complexes were extracted into 1‐hexyl‐3‐methylimidazolium hexafluorophosphate. Key factors that affect the extraction efficiency of mercury species, such as type and amount of ionic liquid and chelatants, extraction time, sample pH, salt effect and matrix effect were investigated. Under the optimum conditions, linearity was found in the concentration range from 0.1–70 ng/g. Limits of detection ranged from 0.037–0.061 ng/g. Reproducibility and recoveries were assessed by extracting a series of six independent sediment samples that were spiked with different concentration levels. Finally, the proposed method was successfully applied in analysis of real sediment samples. In this work, ionic liquids vortex‐assisted liquid–liquid microextraction was for the first time used for the extraction of mercury species in sediment samples. The proposed method was proved to be much simpler and more rapid, as well as more environmentally friendly and efficient compared with the previous methods.     

A new calibration method for the determination of trace amounts of mercury in air and biological materials

Summary A new calibration method for the determination of mercury by CVAAS using collector preconcentration is described. The main piece of a developed calibration device is a special valve which links a closed Hg — saturated gas flow with an open flow of the carrier gas to the AA — spectrometer. This principle allows the direct injection of defined Hg-saturated gas volumes into the sample gas-flow. In this way the known systematic errors of traditional methods by contamination and loss, caused above all by the manual handling of mercury vapor or solution, are avoided. Instrumental and procedural aspects of the application are discussed and the reliability relating to the mercury determination in air and biological materials is evaluated. The new method is superior to the other calibration methods in every way. In the 1 ng Hg range the within-run precision is better than 1%, and the day-to-day precision better than 2%. The accuracy was validated by determining various biological SRMs. All the results in the g/g and ng/g level corresponded well to certified values. The new method is also a simple and reliable way of carrying out the necessary internal quality control.     

Analysis of Mercury in Skin Lightening Cream by Microwave Plasma Atomic Emission Spectroscopy (MP-AES)

This research aimed at developing an analysis method, which was optimized and validated to determine the content of mercury in skin lightening cream discovered in the market in Bandar Lampung, Indonesia, through the use of microwave plasma atomic emission spectroscopy (MP-AES). The optimization on the analysis method was conducted on pump rate, viewing position, and reductant concentration in order to obtain the highest mercury emission intensity, while the solution stability was optimized to know the stability of mercury in the solution. The result showed that the method developed had precision with a relative standard deviation of 2.67%, recovery value of 92.78%, and linearity with an r value of 0.993, respectively. The sensitivity of the instrument detection had a limit of analysis method detection and quantification of 0.59 and 1.98 µg/L, respectively. The results of the test of the lightening cream (8 of 16 samples) positively contained mercury in the range of 422.61–44,960.79 ng/g. Therefore the method of analysis developed may be used for routine analysis of chemicals in any cosmetics products.     

Determination of mercury in microwave-digested soil by laser-excited atomic fluorescence spectrometry with electrothermal atomization

A sample digestion procedure was developed which employs microwave heating of soil and sediment in concentrated nitric acid in a high-pressure closed vessel. Complete dissolution of mercury into the sample solution occurs within 5 min at 59 W/vessel without loss of analyte through overpressurization. Laser-excited atomic fluorescence spectrometry with electrothermal atomization (LEAFS-ETA) was used as the detection method. The scheme uses a two-step excitation, with λ₁ = 253.7 nm and λ₂ = 435.8 nm. Direct line fluorescence was measured at 546.2 nm. The absolute instrumental limit of detection was 14 fg; 1.4 pg/ml with a 10 μl sample injection. The recoveries of mercury in two spiked samples were 94 and 98%. The SRM 8406 (Mercury in River Sediment) was digested and analyzed for mercury, and the results (58.4 ± 1.8 ng/g) agreed well with the reference value of 60 ng/g. The results obtained by LEAFS-ETA with microwave sample digestion are in good agreement with those found by cold vapor atomic absorption spectrometry with EPA Series Method 245.5 sample digestion, which is one of the most commonly used methods for the determination of mercury in soil.     

Feasibility of eliminating interferences in graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry using analyte transfer to the permanently modified graphite tube surface

A procedure is proposed to avoid spectral and/or non-spectral interferences in graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry (GF AAS) by transferring the analyte during the pyrolysis stage from a solid sampling platform to the graphite tube wall that has been coated with a permanent modifier, e.g. by electrodeposition of a platinum-group metal. The direct determination of mercury in solid coal samples was chosen as a model to investigate the feasibility of this idea. The graphite tube surface was coated with palladium and the analyte was transferred from the solid sampling platform to the tube wall at a temperature of 500±50 °C. A characteristic mass of m₀=64 pg Hg was obtained for an atomization temperature of 1300 °C, proposing a quantitative transfer of the analyte to the tube wall. Calibration against aqueous mercury standards was not feasible as this element was lost in part already during the drying stage and could not be trapped quantitatively on the modified graphite tube surface. However, the results for all except one of the coal reference materials were within the 95% confidence interval of the certificate when the slope of a correlation curve between the integrated absorbance, normalized for 1 mg of sample, and the certified value for mercury was used for calibration. A detection limit of 0.025–0.05 μg g⁻¹ Hg in coal, calculated from three times the standard deviation of the investigated coal samples, could be obtained with the proposed method. The spectral interference due to excessive background absorption in the direct determination of mercury in coal could be eliminated completely. It is expected that this analyte transfer can be used in a similar way to eliminate other spectral and/or non-spectral interferences in the GF AAS determination of other volatile analytes.     

Routine determination of mercury,arsenic and selenium by radiochemical Neutron Activation Analysis

A method for the determination of mercury, arsenic and selenium by neutron activation analysis is described. Radiochemical separations are performed by selective distillation followed by electrolysis of mercury on gold and precipitation of arsenic and/or selenium by reduction to the elemental form. The chemical yields are 80–90% for mercury and 90–100% for arsenic and selenium. Interference tests have been carried out with reference to those elements most likely to interfere with the analysis. Detection limits for mercury, arsenic and selenium using 0.1 g of sample are 0.2 ng g^–1, 2 ng g^–1 and 3 ng g^–1, resp. Detection limits can be improved using greater sample size and neutron flux density. Results from the analysis of several NBS standard reference materials are given.     

Development of an ICP-IDMS method for accurate routine analyses of toxic heavy metals in polyolefins and comparison with results by TI-IDMS

An inductively coupled plasma isotope dilution mass spectrometric (ICP-IDMS) method was developed as a suitable method - with respect to its sensitivity, precision, accuracy, and time-consumption - for the analysis of toxic heavy metal traces (Pb, Cd, Cr, and Hg) in polyolefins. Results for Pb, Cd, and Cr were compared with those obtained by thermal ionization isotope dilution mass spectrometry (TI-IDMS), which was used as a reference method. Because of its high first ionization potential and its high volatility mercury could not be determined by TI-IDMS. A multi-element spike solution, containing isotopically enriched 206Pb, 116Cd, 53Cr, and 201Hg, was used for the isotope dilution step. Decomposition of the polyolefin samples was carried out with concentrated HNO3 at temperatures of about 300 degrees C in a high pressure asher (HPA). This procedure decomposes polyolefins completely and allows isotopic equilibration between sample and spike isotopes. Detection limits of 16 ng/g, 5 ng/g, 164 ng/g, and 9 ng/g were obtained for Pb, Cd, Cr, and Hg by ICP-IDMS using only sample weights of 0.25 g. In different commercially available polyethylene samples heavy metal concentrations in the range of < 5 ng/g to 4 x 10(3) ng/g were analyzed. Both mass spectrometric methods were applied within the EU project "Polymeric Elemental Reference Material (PERM)" for the certification of two polyethylene reference materials. The ICP-IDMS results agreed very well with those of TI-IDMS which demonstrates the accuracy of the ICP-IDMS method also suitable for routine analyses.     

天然水体中痕量汞的形态分析方法研究

天然水体中汞的含量仅为ng/L级，不仅难以测出，而且在测定过程中极易受到干扰；利用两次金汞齐的预富集方法与原子荧光法结合的技术，作者建立了天然水体超痕量不同形态汞的准确分析方法；该方法的检出限达到了0．02ng／L，实验平均回收率为101%；该方法也适用于其它低汞含量水样(包括稀释后的污水及化工废水)中汞的形态分析。