| A rapid and direct method for organic nitrogen analysis in environment |
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| 作者姓名： | Baiyang CHEN |
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| 作者单位： | Civil ＆ Environmental Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA |
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| 摘 要： | Organic nitrogen is omnipresent in nature. The variations of dissolved organic nitrogen （DON） concentration are usually a result of microbial activity, anthropogenic influence, and/or other physical-chemical processes （e.g. photo-mineralization）. Therefore, DON serves as an important indicator for aquatic life cycles and water qualities. However, current DON detection methods inevitably produce exaggerated standard deviation, due to their inherent subtraction processes, as shown in the below equation. Consequently, they are incapable of propelling further understandings of the DON occurrence, DON role in nutrient recycling, and DON potential human toxicity as well. SDON=（STN2＋SDIN^2）0.5, where： S=standard deviation in an effort to overcome the barricade, the primary goal of this study is to develop a membrane pretreatrnent unit using electro-dialysis （EDI） process. Similar to the well-known mechanism used in dissolved organic carbon （DOC） analysis, which employs acidification and following purging to eliminate the inorganic carbon species, this study believes that EDI could significantly （〉99%） remove the dissolved inorganic nitrogen （DIN） species （i.e., ammonia, nitrite and nitrate） and concurrently retain most of organic nitrogen materials. By grafting the pretreatment unit with a total nitrogen （TN） analyzer, the system then enables direct detection of DON. Meanwhile, EDI discriminates nitrogen not only on size differences, but also on electrostatic force that separates nitrogen species according to their charge, thus making it more advantageous than other membrane technologies. Results showed that this approach was successfully used to separate inorganic from organic nitrogen for the selected water samples, including model amino acids, natural organic water ＆ isolates （i.e., humic substance）, and wastewater plant effluents. The EDI process was able to reduce more than 99% of inorganic nitrogen species within 2 hours under a 40-voltage operation condition, ending up with negligible DIN. Meanwhile, it retained more than 90% of organic matter （in terms of DOC） for natural water samples and 80% for wastewater effluent samples, meaning that DON can be analyzed directly without sacrifising significant organics. In addition, the EDI unit deleted other inorganic anions such as bicarbonate, chloride, sulfate, and phosphate, too, implying that this unit might also be applied to other organic matter like organic chloride, sulfur, phosphorous, etc.
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| 关 键 词： | 有机氮 电渗析 隔膜 分离方法 地球化学 元素 |
A rapid and direct method for organic nitrogen analysis in environment |
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| Baiyang CHEN.A rapid and direct method for organic nitrogen analysis in environment[J].Chinese Journal of Geochemistry,2006,25(B08):208-208. |
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| Keywords: | organic nitrogen electrodialysis ion-exchange membrane separation |
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