Flow-injection technique for the determination of low levels of phosphorus in natural waters |
| |
Authors: | Paul R. Freeman Ian D. McKelvie Barry T. Hart Terence J. Cardwell |
| |
Affiliation: | Centre for Stream Ecology and Department of Chemistry and Biology, Chisholm Institute of Technology, P.O. Box 197, Caulfield East, Victoria 3145 Australia;Analytical Chemistry Laboratories, Chemistry Department, La Trobe University, Melbourne 3083 Australia |
| |
Abstract: | An inexpensive flow-injection instrument for determining low concentrations of dissolved reactive phosphorus in natural waters is reported. The unique feature is the use of an inexpensive detector consisting of a flow cell and a simple photometer that incorporates a super-bright light-emitting diode as the source and a photodiode as the detector. The tin(II) chloride-molybdate method was optimized using a modified simplex optimization method. Silicate interference up to 5 mg Si l?1 was removed by addition of 0.10% (w/v) tartaric acid. Using the tartaric acid-modified optimized reagents, a detection limit of 0.6 μg P l?1 was achieved. The method was linear over the range 0–100 μg P l?1 with an excellent precision (r.s.d. 2.9% at 2.0 and 0.5% at 50 μg P l?1). An in-line pre-concentration anion-exchange column was used to obtain an even lower detection limit of 0.1 μg P l?1 and applied to the analysis of real samples. |
| |
Keywords: | Phosphorus Waters |
本文献已被 ScienceDirect 等数据库收录! |
|