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Determination of Alkylphenol and Alkylphenol Polyethoxylates in Water and Sediments by Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry

Alkylphenol polyethoxylates are one of the most importantclasses of nonionic surfactants. They are widely used in the household detergents and dyeing industry. Indeed, alkylphenols have been estimated that they are persistence organic pollutions which are not easily biodegraded by microorganisms and demonstrated as endocrine disruptors. Therefore alkylphenols regard as environmental hormones.
The purpose in this research is developing the method which can be used for detection and quantification of alkylphenols and alkylphenol polyethoxylates in waters and sediments. LC-MS/MS was used as the analytical instrument which can analyze alkylphenols combined with long ethoxylate chain with improved sensitivity and selectivity. The extraction is liquid-liquid extraction. The mobile phase consisting of acetonitrile, water and methanol(43/14/43%, v/v/v) with 20mM ammonium acetate added was used for HPLC separation. The recoveries of alkylphenols and alkylphenol polyethoxylates from water and sediments were 83.0~95.1% and 84.8~94.6%. Decision limit(CC£\) and detection capability(CC£]) of water were 0.10~1.65 ng/L and 0.13~2.03 ng/L. CC£\ and CC£] of sediments were 0.05~0.95 ng/g and 0.06~1.18 ng/g.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0830110-140018
Date30 August 2010
CreatorsCho, Chun-Liang
ContributorsJung-Hui Chen, Chi-Hsin Hsu, Wei-Hsien Wang
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0830110-140018
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