Cascade
ultrafiltering of 210Pb and 210Po in freshwater using a
tangential flow filtering system</p>
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Authors: | Y Ohtsuka M Yamamoto Y Takaku S Hisamatsu J Inaba |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Radioecology, Institute for Environmental Sciences, Rokkasho, Aomori 039-3212, Japan;(2) Low Level Radioactivity Laboratory, Institute of Nature and Environmental Technology, Kanazawa University, Wake, Nomi-shi, Ishikawa 923-1224, Japan;(3) Department of Radioecology, Institute for Environmental Sciences, Rokkasho, Aomori 039-3212, Japan;(4) Department of Radioecology, Institute for Environmental Sciences, Rokkasho, Aomori 039-3212, Japan;(5) Department of Radioecology, Institute for Environmental Sciences, Rokkasho, Aomori 039-3212, Japan |
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Abstract: | Summary A
rapid method was developed using ultrafilters with a tangential flow filtering
system for molecular size separation of naturally occurring 210Pb
and 210Po in a freshwater sample. Generally, ultrafiltering of a
large volume water sample for measuring the nuclides was too time consuming and
not practical. The tangential flow filtering system made the filtering time
short enough to adapt for in-situ ultrafiltering the large volume sample. In this
method, a 20 liter water sample was at first passed through the 0.45mm pore size
membrane filter immediately after sample collection to obtain suspended
particle matter >0.45mm particulate fraction (PRT)]. Two ultrafilters (Millipore
Pellicon 2ò)
were used sequentially. The nuclides in the filtrate were separated into three
fractions: high molecular mass (100 kDa-0.45mm; HMM), low molecular mass (10 k-100 kDa;
LMM) and ionic (<10 kDa; INC) fractions. It took 80 minutes to process the
sample after collection. The cut-off molecular size of each ultrafilter was
confirmed by size exclusion chromatographs (SEC) of the LMN and the HMM
fractions. Adsorption of the nuclides and organic compounds in the sample onto
the ultrafilters was negligibly small. Good reproducibility of the nuclide
concentrations in each fraction was confirmed by repeated experiments. The
method was successfully applied to obtaine the molecular size distributions of 210Pb
and 210Po in an oligotrophic lake, Lake Towada located in the northern
area of Japan.</p>
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