Needle concentrator for gas chromatographic determination of BTEX in aqueous samples

J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci. 2004 Feb 5;800(1-2):295-301. doi: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2003.09.009.

Abstract

A simple method of solventless extraction of volatile organic compounds (BTEX) from aqueous samples was developed and validated. A new arrangement of the full volume inside needle capillary adsorption trap (INCAT) device with Porapak Q as a sorbent material and wet alumina as a source of desorptive water vapour flow in a closed analytical system is presented. The analytical characteristics of developed device and of compared purge-and-trap (PTI) device for BTEX compounds are similar; the limits of detection as well as quantification are lower than 1 microg l(-1).

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Absorption
  • Aluminum Oxide
  • Chromatography, Gas
  • Organic Chemicals / analysis*
  • Polyethylenes
  • Reference Standards
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Temperature
  • Water Pollutants, Chemical / analysis*
  • Water Supply / analysis*
  • Xylenes / analysis

Substances

  • Organic Chemicals
  • Polyethylenes
  • Water Pollutants, Chemical
  • Xylenes
  • porapak P
  • Aluminum Oxide