title: Solid phase extraction with pyrenebutyric acid-bonded silica for analysis of polychlorinated biphenyls in sewage water by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.
abstract: A solid phase extraction (SPE) method using pyrenebutyric acid-bonded silica (PYB) as sorbent was developed to determine 23 polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in sewage water by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Factors were optimized in SPE procedures including elution solvent, pH, and cartridge burden. The recoveries of 23 PCB congeners were 69.44-111.91% under optimized conditions. Comparisons were also conducted among PYB-SPE, C(18)-SPE and United States Environmental Protection Agency 608 (USEPA608) methods in the analysis of PCBs in sewage water samples. The results showed that the performance of PYB-SPE method was similar with USEPA608 method and better than C(18)-SPE method. Both PYB-SPE and USEPA608 methods were then employed to analyze PCBs in real spiked sewage water samples. The recoveries of PCB congeners determined by PYB-SPE method ranged from 70.6% to 92.4% in real spiked sewage water samples which were identified to be in accordance with USEPA608 method. Limits of detection (LOD) were in the range of 0.06-0.22ngL(-1) for PCB congeners. The optimized PYB-SPE method was successfully applied to the determination of PCBs in sewage water samples.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China. fxyang@ihb.ac.cn
authors.forename: Fangxing
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Shiwei
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: Diya
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Meng
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xu
mesh_terms: D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D011078:Polychlorinated Biphenyls / Q000032:analysis* / Q000737:chemistry; D011721:Pyrenes / Q000737:chemistry; D012722:Sewage / Q000737:chemistry*; D012822:Silicon Dioxide / Q000737:chemistry*; D052616:Solid Phase Extraction / Q000379:methods*; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical / Q000032:analysis* / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D011721:Pyrenes; D012722:Sewage; D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical; C002218:1-pyrenebutyrate; D012822:Silicon Dioxide; D011078:Polychlorinated Biphenyls