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Headspace gas chromatographic determination of aromatic hydrocarbons in natural and waste water

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The possibilities of using headspace analysis of aromatic hydrocarbon traces in aqueous solutions with changing values of the partition coefficients are discussed. A variant of headspace analysis of the simplest aromatic hydrocarbon in natural and waste water is described. It involves two-step gaseous extraction of a sample in vessels of varying volume before and after the equilibrium phase is replaced with a pure gas (air or nitrogen). This method permits to analyse 5–50 ml water samples with benzene and toluene contents varying from the ppb to the ppm range within an error not exceeding 155. The analysis time is about 1.5 h. The presence of non-volatile organic or mineral substances does not influence the determination. This method is unsuitable to heterogeneous systems (aqueous oil emulsions): before carrying out the analysis for the hydrocarbon content these systems have to be homogenized first.

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  1. Gas Chromatography Laboratory, Chemistry Department, Leningrad State University, 199164, Leningrad, USSR

    B. V. Stolyarov

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Presented at the Scientific Seminar on Headspace Gas Chromatography organized in cooperation with the Perkin-Elmer Corporation (Norwalk, CO, USA) in Leningrad, December 4–5, 1979.

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Stolyarov, B.V. Headspace gas chromatographic determination of aromatic hydrocarbons in natural and waste water. Chromatographia 14, 699–703 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02259458

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