Calibration of the Chemcatcher ® passive sampler for monitoring selected polar and semi-polar pesticides in surface water
Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Standard
In: Environmental Pollution, Vol. 155, No. 1, 01.09.2008, p. 52-60.
Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Harvard
APA
Vancouver
Bibtex
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
T1 - Calibration of the Chemcatcher ® passive sampler for monitoring selected polar and semi-polar pesticides in surface water
AU - Gunold, Roman
AU - Schäfer, Ralf B.
AU - Paschke, Albrecht
AU - Schüermann, Gerrit
AU - Liess, Matthias
N1 - Funding Information: The authors are grateful to Uwe Schröter (UFZ) for help with the experimental work. Furthermore, we are indebted to Richard Greenwood and Graham Mills (University of Portsmouth, UK) for providing us with the Chemcatcher ® bodies, and to Branislav Vrana (University of Portsmouth) for helpful information. R.B.S. received funding from the “Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes” (Bonn, Germany). A.P. and R.B.S. are also grateful to the British Council & German Academic Exchange Service (ARC project no. 1239) for financial support.
PY - 2008/9/1
Y1 - 2008/9/1
N2 - Passive sampling is a powerful method for continuous pollution monitoring, but calibration experiments are still needed to generate sampling rates in order to estimate water concentrations for polar compounds. We calibrated the Chemcatcher ® device with an uncovered SDB-XC Empore disk as receiving phase for 12 polar and semi-polar pesticides in aquatic environments in flow-through tank experiments at two water flow velocities (0.135 m/s and 0.4 m/s). In the 14-day period of exposure the uptake of test substances in the sampler remained linear, and all derived sampling rates R s were in the range of 0.1 to 0.5 L/day. By additionally monitoring the release of two preloaded polar pesticides from the SDB-XC disks over time, very high variation in release kinetics was found, which calls into question the applicability of performance reference compounds. Our study expands the applicability of the Chemcatcher ® for monitoring trace concentrations of pesticides with frequent occurrence in water.
AB - Passive sampling is a powerful method for continuous pollution monitoring, but calibration experiments are still needed to generate sampling rates in order to estimate water concentrations for polar compounds. We calibrated the Chemcatcher ® device with an uncovered SDB-XC Empore disk as receiving phase for 12 polar and semi-polar pesticides in aquatic environments in flow-through tank experiments at two water flow velocities (0.135 m/s and 0.4 m/s). In the 14-day period of exposure the uptake of test substances in the sampler remained linear, and all derived sampling rates R s were in the range of 0.1 to 0.5 L/day. By additionally monitoring the release of two preloaded polar pesticides from the SDB-XC disks over time, very high variation in release kinetics was found, which calls into question the applicability of performance reference compounds. Our study expands the applicability of the Chemcatcher ® for monitoring trace concentrations of pesticides with frequent occurrence in water.
KW - Chemistry
KW - pesticides
KW - Passive sampling
KW - Water
KW - Bioavailability
KW - Chemcatcher
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=46049112753&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/309a68dd-bc33-314d-92f6-f28fe4a16b7e/
U2 - 10.1016/j.envpol.2007.10.037
DO - 10.1016/j.envpol.2007.10.037
M3 - Journal articles
C2 - 18068881
VL - 155
SP - 52
EP - 60
JO - Environmental Pollution
JF - Environmental Pollution
SN - 0269-7491
IS - 1
ER -