Journal
JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY A
Volume 1218, Issue 45, Pages 8131-8139Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2011.09.042
Keywords
Needle-trap; Headspace; Wastewaters; Adsorption; VOC
Funding
- MICINN (Spanish Ministry of Innovation and Science) [CTM2008-06847-C02-02/TECNO]
- Spanish Ministry of Education [AP2008-01628]
- Generalitat of Catalunya [2011FI_B 00020]
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Combining headspace (HS) sampling with a needle-trap device (NTD) to determine priority volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in water samples results in improved sensitivity and efficiency when compared to conventional static HS sampling. A 22 gauge stainless steel, 51-mm needle packed with Tenax TA and Carboxen 1000 particles is used as the NTD. Three different HS-NTD sampling methodologies are evaluated and all give limits of detection for the target VOCs in the ng L(-1) range. Active (purge-and-trap) HS-NTD sampling is found to give the best sensitivity but requires exhaustive control of the sampling conditions. The use of the NTD to collect the headspace gas sample results in a combined adsorption/desorption mechanism. The testing of different temperatures for the HS thermostating reveals a greater desorption effect when the sample is allowed to diffuse, whether passively or actively, through the sorbent particles. The limits of detection obtained in the simplest sampling methodology, static HS-NTD (5 mL aqueous sample in 20 mL HS vials, thermostating at 50 degrees C for 30 min with agitation), are sufficiently low as to permit its application to the analysis of 18 priority VOCs in natural and waste waters. In all cases compounds were detected below regulated levels. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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