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Jiang X, Liu D, Jiang G, Xie Y. Simultaneous Determination of Chemical Oxygen Demand, Total Nitrogen, Ammonia, and Phosphate in Surface Water Based on a Multielectrode System. ACS OMEGA 2024; 9:29252-29262. [PMID: 39005773 PMCID: PMC11238226 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.4c00169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2024] [Revised: 05/29/2024] [Accepted: 06/07/2024] [Indexed: 07/16/2024]
Abstract
A technique for monitoring chemical oxygen demand (COD), total nitrogen (TN), ammonia (N-NH4), and phosphate (P-PO4) in surface water with a targeted signal multielectrode system (Cu, Ir, Rh, Co(OH)2, and Zr(OH)4 electrodes) is proposed for the first time. Each water quality index is specifically detected by at least two electrodes with distinct selectivity sensing mechanisms. Cyclic voltammetry and electrochemical impedance measurements are employed for multidimensional signal acquisition, complemented by normalization and Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO) for principal feature extraction and dimension reduction. Multiple linear regression (MLR), partial least-squares (PLS), and eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) were employed to evaluate the established prediction model. The precisions of the multielectrode system are ±10%/±5 ppm of COD, ±10%/±0.2 ppm of TN, ±5%/±0.1 ppm of N-NH4, and ±5%/±0.01 ppm of P-PO4. The analysis time of the multielectrode system is reduced from hours to minutes compared with traditional analysis, without any sample pretreatment, facilitating continuous online monitoring in the field. The developed multielectrode system offers a feasible strategy for online in situ monitoring of surface water quality.
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- Xinyue Jiang
- State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- School of Material and Chemical Engineering, Hubei University of Technology, 28, Nanli Road, Hong-shan District, Wuhan 430068, China
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- School of Bioengineering and Food Science, Hubei University of Technology, 28, Nanli Road, Hong-shan District, Wuhan 430068, China
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Motahari S, Morgan S, Hendricks A, Sonnichsen C, Sieben V. Continuous Flow with Reagent Injection on an Inlaid Microfluidic Platform Applied to Nitrite Determination. MICROMACHINES 2024; 15:519. [PMID: 38675330 PMCID: PMC11052183 DOI: 10.3390/mi15040519] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/29/2024] [Revised: 03/25/2024] [Accepted: 04/09/2024] [Indexed: 04/28/2024]
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A continuous flow with reagent injection method on a novel inlaid microfluidic platform for nitrite determination has been successfully developed. The significance of the high-frequency monitoring of nutrient fluctuations in marine environments is crucial for understanding our impacts on the ecosystem. Many in-situ systems face limitations in high-frequency data collection and have restricted deployment times due to high reagent consumption. The proposed microfluidic device employs automatic colorimetric absorbance spectrophotometry, using the Griess assay for nitrite determination, with minimal reagent usage. The sensor incorporates 10 solenoid valves, four syringes, two LEDs, four photodiodes, and an inlaid microfluidic technique to facilitate optical measurements of fluid volumes. In this flow system, Taylor-Aris dispersion was simulated for different injection volumes at a constant flow rate, and the results have been experimentally confirmed using red food dye injection into a carrier stream. A series of tests were conducted to determine a suitable injection frequency for the reagent. Following the initial system characterization, seven different standard concentrations ranging from 0.125 to 10 µM nitrite were run through the microfluidic device to acquire a calibration curve. Three different calibrations were performed to optimize plug length, with reagent injection volumes of 4, 20, and 50 µL. A straightforward signal processing method was implemented to mitigate the Schlieren effect caused by differences in refractive indexes between the reagent and standards. The results demonstrate that a sampling frequency of at least 10 samples per hour is achievable using this system. The obtained attenuation coefficients exhibited good agreement with the literature, while the reagent consumption was significantly reduced. The limit of detection for a 20 µL injection volume was determined to be 94 nM from the sample intake, and the limit of quantification was 312 nM. Going forward, the demonstrated system will be packaged in a submersible enclosure to facilitate in-situ colorimetric measurements in marine environments.
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- Shahrooz Motahari
- Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Dalhousie University, 1360 Barrington Street, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada; (S.M.); (A.H.); (C.S.)
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- Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, 1355 Oxford Street, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada;
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- Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Dalhousie University, 1360 Barrington Street, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada; (S.M.); (A.H.); (C.S.)
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- Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Dalhousie University, 1360 Barrington Street, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada; (S.M.); (A.H.); (C.S.)
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- Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Dalhousie University, 1360 Barrington Street, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada; (S.M.); (A.H.); (C.S.)
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Liu D, Xiong Y, Zeng H, Xu J, Tang B, Li Y, Zhang M. Deep UV-LED induced nitrate-to-nitrite conversion for total dissolved nitrogen determination in water samples through persulfate digestion and capillary electrophoresis. Anal Chim Acta 2023; 1278:341743. [PMID: 37709434 DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2023.341743] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2023] [Accepted: 08/20/2023] [Indexed: 09/16/2023]
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BACKGROUND Capillary electrophoresis (CE) with capacitively coupled contactless conductivity detection (C4D) is widely used for water quality monitoring. However, there is currently no reported CE method for detecting total dissolved nitrogen (TDN), a crucial parameter for assessing water eutrophication. One challenge is the high sulfate concentration (100 mM) introduced during persulfate digestion, leading to overlap of nitrate (from TDN) and poor electrical stacking of nitrate in CE-C4D analysis. RESULTS We introduced an in-capillary UV-LED induced photoreaction to convert nitrate to nitrite, which can be baseline-separated from sulfate via the CE method, enabling accurate quantification of nitrate concentration derived from nitrite. A 2 nL post-persulfate digested sample solution within a fused silica capillary was exposed to UV-LED irradiation at the capillary tip. Subsequently, photoreduction-produced nitrite was electrophoretically separated from sulfate in an acidic buffer (pH = 3.7) within the same capillary, followed by contactless conductivity detection. The nitrate-to-nitrite conversion efficiency was influenced by irradiation wavelength, power, and duration, reaching a maximum efficiency of 77.4% when employing two 230 nm LEDs for 5 min. For more general applications, two 255 nm LEDs were used, providing a conversion efficiency of (66.4 ± 3.3)% (n = 11) for 5 min of irradiation. The proposed CE-C4D method exhibits a detection limit of 13 μM (0.18 mg N/L) and has been successfully employed for TDN determination in lake water samples. SIGNIFICANCE This innovative approach not only enhances the attractiveness of the CE-C4D method for the determination of water quality indicators but also highlights the potential for integrating deep-UV LEDs into environmental analysis.
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- Dongmei Liu
- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, Guangxi, 541004, China
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, Guangxi, 541004, China
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, Guangxi, 541004, China.
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, Guangxi, 541004, China
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- China Nonferrous Metals (Guilin) Geology and Mining Co., Ltd., Guilin, Guangxi, 541004, China
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, Guangxi, 541004, China
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- School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, Guangxi, 541004, China.
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Cortés-Bautista S, Robles-Jimárez HR, Carrero-Ferrer I, Molins-Legua C, Campíns-Falcó P. Portable determinations for legislated dissolved nitrogen forms in several environmental water samples as a study case. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2023; 864:161131. [PMID: 36566864 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.161131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2022] [Revised: 11/28/2022] [Accepted: 12/19/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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In this work, we have studied the main species involved in determining total dissolved nitrogen (TDN) in water samples for accommodating a variety of quantitation methodologies to portable instruments and with the goal to achieve in situ analysis. The rise of water eutrophication is becoming an ecological problem in the world and TDN contributes markedly to this. Traditionally the several forms of DN are measured in the laboratory using conventional instrumentation from grab samples, but their analysis in place and in real time is a current demand. Inorganic nitrogen: NO3-, NO2- and NH4+, and organic nitrogen, such as amino nitrogen were tested here. For nitrate that presents native UV absorption suitable for direct water analysis, a portable optical fiber probe was compared with benchtop equipment and an in place analyzer. For nitrate, nitrite and ammonium, in situ solid devices that deliver reagents needed were tested and water color was measured by a smartphone coupled with a miniaturized optical fiber spectrometer and a miniaturized spectrometer or from images obtained and their RGB components. Amino nitrogen of some aromatic aminoacids with native fluorescence was followed by a portable optical fiber probe. Organic amino nitrogen and ammonium were determined by a portable luminometer and luminol supported in a measurement tube. Moreover, a portable miniaturized liquid chromatograph was shown suitable for monitoring priority nitrogen environmental pollutants. All options provided suitable results in comparison with lab estimations and were useful for evaluating if the legislation is fulfilled for the variety of tested waters. A discussion about the several portable options proposed for in place analysis, in function of the legislated determinations needed for each type of water was carried out.
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- S Cortés-Bautista
- MINTOTA Research Group, Departament de Química Analítica, Facultat de Química, Universitat de València, Dr. Moliner 50, 46100 Burjassot, València, Spain
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- MINTOTA Research Group, Departament de Química Analítica, Facultat de Química, Universitat de València, Dr. Moliner 50, 46100 Burjassot, València, Spain
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- MINTOTA Research Group, Departament de Química Analítica, Facultat de Química, Universitat de València, Dr. Moliner 50, 46100 Burjassot, València, Spain
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- MINTOTA Research Group, Departament de Química Analítica, Facultat de Química, Universitat de València, Dr. Moliner 50, 46100 Burjassot, València, Spain
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- MINTOTA Research Group, Departament de Química Analítica, Facultat de Química, Universitat de València, Dr. Moliner 50, 46100 Burjassot, València, Spain.
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Geng J, Yang C, Lan L, Li Y, Han J, Zhou C. Online rapid total nitrogen detection method based on UV spectrum and spatial interval permutation combination population analysis. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2022; 274:121009. [PMID: 35248853 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2022.121009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2021] [Revised: 01/17/2022] [Accepted: 02/03/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Rapidly and accurately detect the total nitrogen (TN) concentration is enormously important for surface water protection considering the critical role it plays in reflecting the eutrophication of surface water. However, traditional TN detection methods have to experience a tedious oxygen digestion process, which tremendously limits the detection speed of TN. To solve this problem, we propose a novel online rapid TN detection method. The transformations of nitrogenous substances during the oxidative digestion process are observed by using ultraviolet (UV) spectroscopy and the concentration of TN can be predicted by only using the variation of spectrum in the early oxygen digestion process. To select the most informative variables hidden in the collected three-dimension spectrum, a new wavelength selection algorithm called spatial interval permutation combination population analysis (siPCPA) is proposed, which considers the spatial-temporal relationships among each variable in the spectrum. By using the real surface water samples collected from Houhu Lake, Changsha, China, the effectiveness of our proposed new detection and selection methods are verified and compared with other state-of-the-art methods. As a result, the practical application experiment shows that our methods can determine the concentration of TN in 5 min with a relative error of less than 5%.
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- Jingxuan Geng
- School of Automation, Central South University, 410083 Changsha, China
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- School of Automation, Central South University, 410083 Changsha, China
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- School of Automation, Central South University, 410083 Changsha, China.
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- School of Automation, Central South University, 410083 Changsha, China
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- School of Automation, Central South University, 410083 Changsha, China
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- School of Automation, Central South University, 410083 Changsha, China
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Trojanowicz M, Pyszynska M. Flow-Injection Methods in Water Analysis-Recent Developments. Molecules 2022; 27:1410. [PMID: 35209198 PMCID: PMC8879103 DOI: 10.3390/molecules27041410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2021] [Revised: 02/11/2022] [Accepted: 02/15/2022] [Indexed: 12/10/2022] Open
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Widespread demand for the analysis and control of water quality and supply for human activity and ecosystem sustainability has necessitated the continuous improvement of water analysis methods in terms of their reliability, efficiency, and costs. To satisfy these requirements, flow-injection analysis using different detection methods has successfully been developed in recent decades. This review, based on about 100 original research papers, presents the achievements in this field over the past ten years. Various methodologies for establishing flow-injection measurements are reviewed, together with microfluidics and portable systems. The developed applications mostly concern not only the determination of inorganic analytes but also the speciation analysis of different elements, and the determination of several total indices of water quality. Examples of the determination of organic residues (e.g., pesticides, phenolic compounds, and surfactants) in natural surface waters, seawater, groundwater, and drinking water have also been identified. Usually, changes in the format of manual procedures for flow-injection determination results in the improvement of various operational parameters, such as the limits of detection, the sampling rate, or selectivity in different matrices.
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- Marek Trojanowicz
- Laboratory of Nuclear Analytical Methods, Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology, Dorodna 16, 02-195 Warsaw, Poland;
- Department of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 1, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
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- Laboratory of Nuclear Analytical Methods, Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology, Dorodna 16, 02-195 Warsaw, Poland;
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