Ln. Moskvin et al., Flow-injection determination of anionic surfactants in natural waters in the presence of humic acids, J ANALYT CH, 56(8), 2001, pp. 763-766
A procedure has been developed for the flow-injection extraction-photometri
c determination of anionic surfactants in natural waters in the presence of
humic acids. The interference from humic acids is not observed up to conce
ntrations of 20 mg/L. The procedure is based on the extraction-chromatograp
hic separation of ion pairs of anionic surfactants with Methylene Blue, the
elution of the separated ion pairs with chloroform, and their recovery fro
m the aqueous phase in a chromatomembrane cell. The calibration range of an
ionic surfactants for a sample volume of 80 mL is 50-500 mug/L.