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Jian Ma1, Peicong Li1, Zhaoying Chen1
1State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Coastal Ecology and Environmental Studies, College of the Environment and Ecology , Xiamen University , Xiamen 361102 , People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
The development of a multipurpose integrated syringe-pump-based environmental-water analyzer ( iSEA) and its application for spectrophotometric determination of ammonium is presented. The iSEA consists of a mini-syringe pump equipped with a selection valve and laboratory-programmed software written by LabVIEW. The chemistry is based on a modified indophenol method using o-phenylphenol. The effect of reagent concentrations and sample temperatures was evaluated. This fully automated analyzer had a detection limit of 0.12 μM with sample throughput of 12 h-1. Relative standard deviations at different concentrations (0-20 μM) were 0.23-3.36% ( n = 3-11) and 1.0% ( n = 144, in 24 h of continuous measurement, ∼5 μM). Calibration curves were linear ( R2 = 0.9998) over the range of 0-20 and 0-70 μM for the detection at 700 and 600 nm, respectively. The iSEA was applied in continuous real-time monitoring of ammonium variations in a river for 24 h and 14 days. A total of 1802 samples were measured, and only 0.4% was outlier data (≥3 sigma residuals). Measurements of reference materials and different aqueous samples ( n = 26) showed no significant difference between results obtained by reference and present methods. The system is compact (18 cm × 22 cm × 24 cm), portable (4.8 kg), and robust (high-resolution real-time monitoring in harsh environments) and consumes a small amount of chemicals (20-30 μL/run) and sample/standards (2.9 mL/run).
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