Objective
Speciation (determination of chemical species) of trace elements plays an important role in ensuring the quality of life in terms of consumer protection, health and safety, and protection and the environment, and has to be established in routine analysis of environmental samples. All existing analytical methods applied to metal speciation are extremely time-consuming and costly and require a highly trained staff, which results in an indispensable demand for the development of a simple and robust system, specially designed for speciation analysis.
The aim of the project is to develop an instrument capable of prodiving information on speciation of environmentally interesting elements on a routine basis. The instrument is intended to be based on a combinationn of a pure-and-trap concentrator, an isothermal oven housing a capillary GC column and a miniature microwave-induced plasma torch for the excitation of the analytes. With the use of a specially designed emission detector, this technique shall allow the determination of species at the trace and ultratrace level. The instrument is intended to be marketed with an user-friendly chemistry kit, including a set of recipees for metal speciation in a variety of environmental matrices.
According to the planned working plan each hardware compound is proceeding. First results for the pure-and-trap unit, the GC system, the plasma, as well as the detector have been obtained. Each component on its own has been tested for its suitability, so the next step is to connect them to a complete analytical instrumentation. Furthermore, a strategy has been established and first results have been obtained for the analytical procedure for the determination of species in different matrices.
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Coordinator
48149 Münster
Germany
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