Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4411166 | Chemosphere | 2011 | 6 Pages |
A novel and simple method based on polymer monolith microextraction (PMME) coupled to gas chromatography with electron-capture detection (GC–ECD) was developed for the determination of six polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) residues in water samples. The proposed method used poly-(methyl methacrylate-co-ethylene dimethacrylate) (MMA-co-EDMA) monolith as extraction media. Several factors affecting experiments such as sample flow rate, sample volume, the type of eluent, eluent volume, eluent flow rate, effect of salt addition and carry over effect were investigated and optimized systematically. The limits of detection (LODs) for six PCBs were 0.028–0.043 ng mL−1 in water samples. The intra-day and inter-day precisions (R.S.D.) were less than 9.2% and 9.6%, respectively. The proposed method was successfully applied to the determination of six PCBs in tap water, lake water and industrial waste water and the trueness has been evaluated by recovery experiments. The obtained relative recoveries were in the range of 63.3–105.6%.
► Previous PMME focused mainly on drug residues, ours is about organic pollutants. ► The monolithic material Poly-(MMA-co-EDMA) was first used in PMME. ► The proposed method was first applied to analysis of PCB residues.