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Determination of aluminium in groundwater samples by GF-AAS, ICP-AES, ICP-MS and modelling of inorganic aluminium complexes

Authors

FRANKOWSKI Marcin ZIOLA-FRANKOWSKA Anetta KURZYCA Iwona NOVOTNÝ Karel VACULOVIČ Tomáš KANICKÝ Viktor SIEPAK Marcin SIEPAK Jerzy

Year of publication 2011
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Science

Citation
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10661-010-1859-8
Field Analytic chemistry
Keywords aluminium; groundwater; miocene aquifer; aluminium complexes; modelling; AAS; ICP
Description The paper presents the results of aluminium determinations in ground water samples of the Miocene aquifer from the area of the city of Poznan (Poland). The determined aluminium content amounted from < 0.0001 to 752.7 mu g L (-aEuro parts per thousand 1). The aluminium determinations were performed using three analytical techniques: graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry (GF-AAS), inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES) and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). The results of aluminium determinations in groundwater samples for particular analytical techniques were compared. The results were used to identify the ascent of ground water from the Mesozoic aquifer to the Miocene aquifer in the area of the fault graben. Using the Mineql+ program, the modelling of the occurrence of aluminium and the following aluminium complexes: hydroxy, with fluorides and sulphates was performed. The paper presents the results of aluminium determinations in ground water using different analytical techniques as well as the chemical modelling in the Mineql+ program, which was performed for the first time and which enabled the identification of aluminium complexes in the investigated samples. The study confirms the occurrence of aluminium hydroxy complexes and aluminium fluoride complexes in the analysed groundwater samples. Despite the dominance of sulphates and organic matter in the sample, major participation of the complexes with these ligands was not stated based on the modelling.

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