Flow Analysis with Atomic Spectrometric Detectors

Alfredo Sanz-Medel (Eds.)978-0-444-82391-5

Flow Analysis (FA) offers a very convenient and fast approach to enhance and automate ‘preliminary steps’ of analysis (sample dissolution, pretreatments, preconcentrations, etc.) for atomic spectrometric detectors (ASD). Moreover, flow manifolds can ease the well-known problem of sample introduction/presentation to atomisers or even expand the classical scope of atomic/elemental information, characterizing atomic spectrometry, into the realm of molecules and metal-compounds analysis (e.g. by resorting to coupled separation techniques). All these facts could explain both the extraordinary interest for research and the great importance for practical problem-solving achieved nowadays by FA-ASD.On the threshold of the new millennium when plasma emission and mass spectrometry are so important and popular, the editor considered it timely to produce a book which covers all present atomic detectors and techniques where FA has been or can be advantageously employed. The book has been conceived in three separate parts:Part I gives the fundamental, instrumentation and potential of FIA as a most versatile sample presentation/introduction system for atomic spectrometry.Part II provides a modern account of fundamentals, possibilities and applications offered by flow analysis to atomic spectrometry for on-line sample pretreatments, separations and preconcentrations.Part III deals with applications of FA-ASD combinations to analytical problem-solving in most varied fields and situations.This monograph integrates the most popular aspects of FIA, its new developments for sample on-line treatments and on-line non-chromatographic and chromatographic separations (all typical ‘flow analysis’) in connection with all branches of analytical atomic spectrometry. Thus, academics, researchers and routine users of analytical atomic spectrometry will find this book invaluable.

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Table of contents :
Content:
Foreword
Pages v-vi
Miguel Valcárcel

Preface
Pages vii-ix
Alfredo Sanz-Medel

List of contributors
Pages xvii-xviii

List of abbreviations
Pages xix-xx

Chapter 1 FIA—Atomic spectrometry: a synergic combination for chemical analysis Original Research Article
Pages 3-33
Julian F. Tyson

Chapter 2 Basic instrumentation for FIA—atomic spectrometric detection Original Research Article
Pages 34-63
Rosario Pereiro

Chapter 3 FIA techniques and strategies expand the potential of atomic spectrometry Original Research Article
Pages 64-97
Julian F. Tyson

Chapter 4 FIA strategies for calibration and standardization in atomic spectrometry Original Research Article
Pages 98-132
Miguel de la Guardia

Chapter 5 Flow injection systems for on-line sample dissolution/decomposition Original Research Article
Pages 135-167
José Luis Burguera, Marcela Burguera

Chapter 6 Flow injection on-line solid—liquid separation and preconcentration atomic spectrometry Original Research Article
Pages 168-202
Zhao-lun Fang, Guan-hong Tao

Chapter 7 Flow-injection on-line liquid—liquid separation and preconcentration atomic spectrometry Original Research Article
Pages 203-236
M. Valcárcel, M. Gallego

Chapter 8 Flow methods in gas—liquid separations Original Research Article
Pages 237-273
J. Dêdina

Chapter 9 Continuous aspiration and flow injection in atomic emission plasma spectrometry Original Research Article
Pages 274-306
Afredo Sanz-Medel, J. Enrique Sánchez Uría, Alberto Menéndez García

Chapter 10 Applications in environmental analysis Original Research Article
Pages 309-341
Angel Morales-Rubio, Miguel de la Guardia

Chapter 11 Applications of flow analysis with atomic spectrometric detectors in clinical and biological analysis Original Research Article
Pages 342-374
Rosario Pereiro, Alfredo Sanz-Medel

Chapter 12 Cryofocusing for on-line metal and metalloid speciation in the environment Original Research Article
Pages 375-406
A. de Diego, C. Pécheyran, C.M. Tseng, O.F.X. Donard

Chapter 13 Chromatographic separations coupled to atomic detectors: trace element speciation in biological systems Original Research Article
Pages 407-438
Alfredo Sanz-Medel

Chapter 14 Microcolumn field sampling and flow injection analysis: a strategy for enhanced trace analysis and element speciation Original Research Article
Pages 439-458
Renli Ma, Glenn Woods, Cameron W. McLeod

Subject index
Pages 459-467