Green analytical chemistry introduction to chloropropanols determination at no economic and analytical performance costs?

Renata Jędrkiewicz; Aleksander Orłowski; Jacek Namieśnik; Marek Tobiszewski

doi:10.1016/j.talanta.2015.10.001

Green analytical chemistry introduction to chloropropanols determination at no economic and analytical performance costs?

Talanta. 2016 Jan 15:147:282-8. doi: 10.1016/j.talanta.2015.10.001. Epub 2015 Oct 9.

Authors

Renata Jędrkiewicz¹, Aleksander Orłowski², Jacek Namieśnik¹, Marek Tobiszewski³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Analytical Chemistry, Chemical Faculty, Gdańsk University of Technology (GUT), 11/12G. Narutowicza St., 80-233 Gdańsk, Poland.
² Department of Management, Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdańsk University of Technology (GUT), 11/12G. Narutowicza St., 80-233 Gdańsk, Poland.
³ Department of Analytical Chemistry, Chemical Faculty, Gdańsk University of Technology (GUT), 11/12G. Narutowicza St., 80-233 Gdańsk, Poland. Electronic address: marektobiszewski@wp.pl.

PMID: 26592608
DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2015.10.001

Abstract

In this study we perform ranking of analytical procedures for 3-monochloropropane-1,2-diol determination in soy sauces by PROMETHEE method. Multicriteria decision analysis was performed for three different scenarios - metrological, economic and environmental, by application of different weights to decision making criteria. All three scenarios indicate capillary electrophoresis-based procedure as the most preferable. Apart from that the details of ranking results differ for these three scenarios. The second run of rankings was done for scenarios that include metrological, economic and environmental criteria only, neglecting others. These results show that green analytical chemistry-based selection correlates with economic, while there is no correlation with metrological ones. This is an implication that green analytical chemistry can be brought into laboratories without analytical performance costs and it is even supported by economic reasons.

Keywords: 3-Monochloropopane-1,2-diol; Analytical methods; Decision making processes; Green analytical chemistry; Multicriteria decision analysis; PROMETHEE.