Overview of the Chemcatcher® for the passive sampling of various pollutants in aquatic environments Part A: Principles, calibration, preparation and analysis of the sampler

Adeline Charriau; Sophie Lissalde; Gaëlle Poulier; Nicolas Mazzella; Rémy Buzier; Gilles Guibaud

doi:10.1016/j.talanta.2015.06.064

Overview of the Chemcatcher® for the passive sampling of various pollutants in aquatic environments Part A: Principles, calibration, preparation and analysis of the sampler

Talanta. 2016 Feb 1:148:556-71. doi: 10.1016/j.talanta.2015.06.064. Epub 2015 Jul 13.

Authors

Adeline Charriau¹, Sophie Lissalde², Gaëlle Poulier³, Nicolas Mazzella⁴, Rémy Buzier⁵, Gilles Guibaud⁵

Affiliations

¹ Groupement de Recherche Eau Sol Environnement (GRESE), Faculté des Sciences et Techniques - Université de Limoges, 123 Avenue Albert Thomas, 87060 Limoges Cedex, France. Electronic address: adeline.charriau@unilim.fr.
² Groupement de Recherche Eau Sol Environnement (GRESE), Faculté des Sciences et Techniques - Université de Limoges, 123 Avenue Albert Thomas, 87060 Limoges Cedex, France. Electronic address: sophie.lissalde@unilim.fr.
³ Groupement de Recherche Eau Sol Environnement (GRESE), Faculté des Sciences et Techniques - Université de Limoges, 123 Avenue Albert Thomas, 87060 Limoges Cedex, France; Unité de recherche EABX, Groupement Irstea de Bordeaux, 50 Avenue de Verdun, Gazinet, 33612 Cestas Cedex, France.
⁴ Unité de recherche EABX, Groupement Irstea de Bordeaux, 50 Avenue de Verdun, Gazinet, 33612 Cestas Cedex, France.
⁵ Groupement de Recherche Eau Sol Environnement (GRESE), Faculté des Sciences et Techniques - Université de Limoges, 123 Avenue Albert Thomas, 87060 Limoges Cedex, France.

PMID: 26653485
DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2015.06.064

Abstract

The passive sampler Chemcatcher(®), which was developed in 2000, can be adapted for various types of water contaminants (e.g., trace metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, pesticides and pharmaceutical residues) depending on the materials chosen for the receiving phase and the membrane. The Chemcatcher(®) has been used in numerous research articles in both laboratory experiments and field exposures, and here we review the state-of-the-art in applying this passive sampler. Part A of this review covers (1) the theory upon which the sampler is based (i.e., brief theory, calculation of water concentration, Performance and Reference Compounds), (2) the preparation of the device (i.e., sampler design, choice of the membrane and disk, mounting of the tool), and (3) calibration procedures (i.e., design of the calibration tank, tested parameters, sampling rates).

Keywords: Calibration; Chemcatcher(®); Environmental monitoring; Freshwater; Micropollutants; Passive sampling.

Publication types

Review