[A novel vapor dynamic headspace enrichment equipment for nontarget screening of volatile organic compounds in drinking water].
A novel vapor dynamic headspace enrichment device was set up for nontarget screening of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in drinking water. The main operating parameters of this device, such as length of distillation tube, volume of collected condensate, and choice of absorbent, were optimized. In this device, vapor was utilized as a purge gas and water was utilized as a absorbent. With the help of the device, one liter of water sample could be concentrated to 5 mL and the sensitivity of traditional purge and trap-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (P&T-GC-MS) could be improved 1-2 orders of magnitude. Source and disinfected water samples from a water treatment plant were analyzed with this method. Compared with the traditional P&T-GC-MS analysis without pre-enrichment, the numbers of identified VOCs were improved from 0 to 16 for source water and 5 to 35 for disinfected water samples. It is also shown that there are many halide compounds in VOCs in disinfected water which do not exist in source water.
Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China.
Huilian
H
Ma
Haijun
H
Zhang
Yuzeng
Y
Tian
Longxing
L
Wang
Jiping
J
Chen
D060766:Drinking Water / Q000032:analysis* / Q000737:chemistry; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D055549:Volatile Organic Compounds / Q000032:analysis*
D060766:Drinking Water; D055549:Volatile Organic Compounds