Online preconcentration system for determining ultratrace amounts of Cd in vegetal samples using thermospray flame furnace atomic absorption spectrometry

Study on the performance of micro-flow injection preconcentration method on-line coupled to thermospray flame furnace AAS using MWCNTs wrapped with polyvinylpyridine nanocomposites as adsorbent

An adsorbent nanocomposite based on multi-walled carbon nanotubes and polyvinylpyridine is used in the development of a micro-flow injection preconcentration method coupled to TS-FF-AAS for the determination of very low levels of Cd.

Potentialities of thermospray flame furnace atomic absorption spectrometry (TS-FF-AAS) in the fast sequential determination of Cd, , Pb and

In this study, the combination of thermospray flame furnace atomic absorption spectrometry (TS-FF-AAS) and fast sequential flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FS-FAAS) for the sequential determination of Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn is presented and a significant improvement in the analytical throughput of TS-FF-AAS is obtained. Ni tubes of different designs were evaluated observing the necessary read delay to obtain maximum absorbance and avoid memory effects. All experiments were performed in a flame atomic absorption spectrometer working in fast sequential mode fitted with a deuterium background corrector. The fast sequential TS-FF-AAS system has been optimized for Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn whereby it was found that a Ni tube with an internal diameter of 8 mm with 10 holes on the bottom side combined with a ceramic capillary of 0.5 mm internal diameter and a delay time of 60 seconds gave the best results (adequate absorbance values and no memory effects). After 60 seconds read delay, Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn could be determined in 12 seconds (3 seconds each element). Limits of detection obtained for Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn were 0.3, 7.5, 4.4 and 0.3 µg L-1, respectively.

Heavy metal contents of refined and unrefined table salts from Turkey, Egypt and Greece

Trace metal contents of 28 of refined and unrefined table salt samples from Turkey, Egypt and Greece have been determined by flame atomic absorption spectrometry after coprecipitation by dysprosium(III) hydroxide. Copper, nickel, cobalt, manganese, lead and cadmium levels were found in the range of 0.17-0.47, 0.16-1.57, 0.22-0.48, 0.26-4.68, 0.50-1.64 and 0.14-0.30 microg g(-1), respectively. The results found in the presented work were compared with literature values.

Biosorption of aluminum on Pseudomonas aeruginosa loaded on Chromosorb 106 prior to its graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometric determination

A biosorption procedure for separation-enrichment of aluminum in environmental samples has been presented in this work. Pseudomonas aeruginosa loaded on Chromosorb 106 has been used as biosorbent for that purpose. P. aeruginosa is a gram-negative, aerobic rod. The influences of pH of the aqueous solution, eluent type, eluent volume, sample volume, etc. were examined on the quantitative recovery of aluminum in P. aeruginosa loaded on Chromosorb 106. The effects of concomitant ions on the recoveries of aluminum were also investigated. The detection limit based on 3 sigma for aluminum is 30 ng L(-1). Three certified reference materials (LGC 6010 Hard Drinking Water, NIST-SRM 1568a Rice Flour and NRCC-DORM-2 Dogfish Muscle) were analyzed for the validation of the presented procedure. The proposed procedure was applied to the determination of aluminum in environmental samples including natural water and food samples. The concentration of aluminum in real samples was found at ppb level.