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TALANTA
Volume 76, Issue 3, Pages 617-620Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2008.04.001
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contactless conductivity; capacitance; ion chromatography
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A capacitance to digital converter (AD7746) is used in the same mode as noncontact conductance detectors. The detector output is linearly proportional to specific conductance (or) at low or values but becomes nonlinear and reaches a plateau value at sigma similar to >0.75 mS/cm, regardless of the nature of the electrolyte. For all applications at sub- to low-mM concentrations, the device, available as an evaluation board, provides a very affordable nothing-else-required means of contactless surrogate conductivity detection from capillary scale to larger bore conduits. For the same measurement cell volume, the detector provides virtually the same limits of detection (LODs) as a standard galvanic contact conductivity detector in conventional scale suppressed conductometric ion chromatography. The detection limits deteriorate as the conduit inner diameter deceases. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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