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ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT
Volume 185, Issue 3, Pages 2297-2305Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-012-2709-7
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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; Magnetic solid-phase extraction; Projection pursuit regression
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Magnetic solid-phase extraction based on coated nano-magnets Fe3O4 was applied for the preconcentration of four polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs; anthracene, phenanthrene, fluorine, and pyrene) in environmental water samples prior to simultaneous spectrophotometric determination using multivariate calibration method. Magnetic nanoparticles, carrying target metals, were easily separated from the aqueous solution by applying an external magnetic field so, no filtration or centrifugation was necessary. After elution of the adsorbed PAHs, the concentration of PAHs was determined spectrophotometrically with the aid of a new and efficient multivariate spectral analysis base on principal component analysis-projection pursuit regression, without separation of analytes. The obtained results revealed that using projection pursuit regression as a flexible modeling approach improves the predictive quality of the developed models compared with partial least squares and least squares support vector machine methods. The method was used to determine four PAHs in environmental water samples.
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