ANALYSIS OF PENTACHLOROPHENOL IN WATER BY PURGE AND TRAP CONCENTRATOR COUPLED TOGAS CHROMATOGRAPHY

It is convenient and time saving to analyze pentachlorophenol (PCP) in water by purge and trap concentrator coupled to gas chromatography that avoids employing a great deal of organic solvent: In this paper, the appropriate purge and trap conditions of PCP are determined: the trapped sorbent is TenaxGC; the purge gas is pure nitrogen and purge flow is 40ml/min; the purge time is 30min. A series of standard PCP water samples 5, 10, 50, 100, 200,400, 800, 1000ppb are analyzed in order to obtain standard curve, and the linear regressive equation obtained is Y=109.65X-687.72, which correlation coefficient r is 0.9949. The precision of the method is determined with 0.5ppb PCP water sample, and the standard deviation measured is 3%. The detection limit for PCP is 0.2ppb.