This paper proposes improved guidelines for dissolved organic matter (DOM) isolation by solid phase extraction (SPE) with a styrene-divinylbenzene copolymer (PPL) sorbent, which has become an established method for the isolation of DOM from natural waters, because of its ease of application and appreciable carbon recovery. Suwannee River water was selected to systematically study the effects of...

The 491 U.S. coal-fired power plants are the largest unregulated industrial source of mercury emissions nationwide, annually emitting about 48 tons of mercury—a toxic element that poses health threats, including neurological disorders in children. In 2000, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) determined that mercury emissions from these sources should be regulated, but the agency has not s...

Magnetic deep eutectic solvents (MDESs) have recently produced a torrent of pioneering applications in endless areas sample preparation. By including magnetic nanomaterial (e.g., nanoparticles) or paramagnetic anion [FeCl4]-) their structure, MDESs exhibit strong response under the application an external field. Furthermore, use MDESs, as sorbent solvent extraction techniques, been scarcely emp...

in this study, for the analysis of human urine samples, a novel method explained for the determination of celecoxib, a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (nsaid), using molecularly imprinted solid-phase extraction (mispe) coupled with high-performance liquid chromatography (hplc). the synthesis of the mip was performed by precipitation polymerization in methacrylic acid (maa), ethylene glycol ...

In the present study the kinetics of biosorption of cadmium(II) ions by deactivated protonated yeast converted to sodium form was investigated for different initial concentrations of the metal ion (10-100 ppm) and different sorbent dosages (0.1-2.0 g) at a pH of 6.5. The adsorption process occurred in four distinct steps and the rates for these steps decreased sequentially. The rate of cadmium ...

Adsorption of mercury(ll) and methylmercury by two tannin sorbents was investigated using radiotracers. High sorption capacities for mercury are registered for both sorbents at pH 7. For Eucaliptus Saligna Sm sorbent (ETS) the maximum sorption capacity was 1.2_+.0.2 mmol/g and for Lysiloma latisiliqua sorbent (LTS) was 8.5+0.2 mmol/g. Methylmercury adsorption maximum was recorded at pH 4 and in...

This work describes the synthesis of a novel magnetic graphene oxide composite for removal of Cr(VI) ions. The synthesized nanosorbent were characterized with various techniques such as FT-IR, X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), elemental analysis and vibrating sample magnetometry (VSM). This material is illustrated to represent a viable sorbent for the removal of Cr(VI...