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Analysis of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in aqueous samples by large volume injection gas chromatography-mass
Álvaro Aragón1, Rosa M Toledano1, Ana Vázquez2
1Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Agrónomos, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Campus Universitario s/n, 02071 Albacete, Spain.
Abstract:
A new procedure for the determination of 17 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in aqueous samples by large volume injection-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (LVI-GC-MS) using the Through Oven Transfer Adsorption Desorption (TOTAD) interface with nitrogen for solvent elimination is developed and validated. Up to 75mL of aqueous samples were injected to be sure that good solvent elimination were achieved, although 500µL were sufficient to achieve the required sensitivity.The performance of the developed method can be considered good: the relative standard deviation (RSD), (n=3) was lower than 13.8% for all the target analytes, the concentration of each PAH being 0.25μgL(-1), the limit of detection and limit of quantitation ranged from 21.5 to 211.0 ng L(-1) and from 71.7 to 703.3ngL(-1) respectively, and the correlation coefficients (R(2)) were all higher than 0.9764 in the 1-16μgL(-1) range.
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