UV-Vis spectroscopy with chemometric data treatment: an option for on-line control in nuclear industry

Chemometrics can be very useful for the classical field of UV-Vis determination of metals in aqueous solutions. A conventional approach consisting of using selective bands in a univariate mode is often not applicable to the real-world samples from e.g. hydrometallurgical processes, because of overlapping signals, light scattering on foreign particles, gas bubble formation, etc. And this is where chemometrics can do a good job. This paper overviews certain contributions to the field of multivariate data processing of UV-Vis spectra for seemingly simple case of metal detection in aqueous solutions. Special attention is given to applications in nuclear technology field.