%0 Journal Article
%T Orthogonal Design Study on Factors Affecting the Determination of Common Odors in Water Samples by Headspace Solid-Phase Microextraction Coupled to GC/MS
%A Shifu Peng
%A Zhen Ding
%A Weiwen Xia
%A Hao Zheng
%A Yuting Xia
%A Xiaodong Chen
%J Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry
%D 2013
%I Hindawi Publishing Corporation
%R 10.1155/2013/340658
%X Geosmin and 2-MIB are responsible for the majority of earthy and musty events related to the drinking water. These two odorants have extremely low odor threshold concentrations at ng£¿L£¿1 level in the water, so a simple and sensitive method for the analysis of such trace levels was developed by headspace solid-phase microextraction coupled to gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. In this study, the orthogonal experiment design L32 (49) was applied to arrange and optimize experimental conditions. The optimum was the following: temperatures of extraction and desorption, 65¡ãC and 260¡ãC, respectively; times of extraction and desorption, 30£¿min and 5£¿min, respectively; ionic strength, 25% (w/v); rotate-speed, 600£¿rpm; solution pH, 5.0. Under the optimized conditions, limits of detection were 0.04 and 0.13£¿ng£¿L£¿1 for geosmin and 2-MIB, respectively. Calculated calibration curves gave high levels of linearity with a correlation coefficient value of 0.9999 for them. Finally, the proposed method was applied to water samples, which were previously analyzed and confirmed to be free of target analytes. Besides, the proposal method was applied to test environmental water samples. The RSDs were 2.75%~3.80% and 4.35%~7.6% for geosmin and 2-MIB, respectively, and the recoveries were 91%~107% and 91%~104% for geosmin and 2-MIB, respectively. 1. Introduction Musty and earthy odors are troublesome in water samples (such as tap water, reservoirs, and lakes) because they dramatically influence the esthetic quality and consumer acceptability of the drinking water [1, 2]. Metabolites are produced in the process of degradation of green-blue algae, which are responsible for this malodor in water, especially during the period of algae blossom in summer [3¨C5]. The chemical by-products, geosmin (trans-1,10-dimethyl-trans-9-decalol) and 2-MIB (2-methylisoborneol), are commonly found in lakes and reservoirs, where people can smell the odor of these compounds in the drinking water even at the determination of 10£¿ng£¿L£¿1 or less, but it would be difficult to identify and quantify these two trace volatile organic compounds (VOCs) [6¨C10]. Therefore, how to extract and enrich them tends to be the key step for qualitative and quantitative analysis at this trace level. To date, a variety of techniques for extraction and enrichment have been established and applied for analyzing earthy and musty compounds. Among these techniques, closed-loop stripping analysis (CLSA) and some of its modified versions have been widely used for the extraction of trace amounts of malodor such as geosmin and
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