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UV–Vis spectroscopy with chemometric data treatment: an option for on-line control in nuclear industry

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Chemometrics can be very useful for the classical field of UV–Vis determination of metals in aqueous solutions. A conventional approach consisting of using selective bands in a univariate mode is often not applicable to the real-world samples from e.g. hydrometallurgical processes, because of overlapping signals, light scattering on foreign particles, gas bubble formation, etc. And this is where chemometrics can do a good job. This paper overviews certain contributions to the field of multivariate data processing of UV–Vis spectra for seemingly simple case of metal detection in aqueous solutions. Special attention is given to applications in nuclear technology field.

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  1. Institute of Chemistry, St. Petersburg State University, Universitetskaya nab. 7/9, St. Petersburg, Russia, 199034

    Dmitry Kirsanov & Andrey Legin

  2. Laboratory of Artificial Sensory Systems, ITMO University, Kronverkskiy pr. 49, St. Petersburg, Russia, 197101

    Dmitry Kirsanov, Andrey Legin & Vasily Babain

  3. CESAM and Chemistry Department, Aveiro University, Campus Universitário De Santiago, 3810-193, Aveiro, Portugal

    Alisa Rudnitskaya

  4. Three Arc MiningInc., Stary Tolmachevsky per. 5, Moscow, Russia, 115184

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Kirsanov, D., Rudnitskaya, A., Legin, A. et al. UV–Vis spectroscopy with chemometric data treatment: an option for on-line control in nuclear industry. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 312, 461–470 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-017-5252-8

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