TY - JOUR
T1 - Extraction of organic pollutants from environmental matrices: selection of extraction technique
AU - Dean, John
AU - Xiong, Guohua
PY - 2000/9
Y1 - 2000/9
N2 - The extraction of organic pollutants from solid environmental matrices has traditionally been done using non-instrumental approaches, e.g. Soxhlet extraction. Recent developments have seen the possibility of extraction using instrumental techniques, namely, supercritical fluid extraction, microwave-assisted extraction and pressurised fluid extraction. This review considers the applications of instrumental techniques for the extraction of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, polychlorinated biphenyls and pesticides from soils/sediments. Then, in order to assist the analyst to select the most appropriate technique (traditional versus instrumental techniques), a comparison of their analytical figures of merit is considered.
AB - The extraction of organic pollutants from solid environmental matrices has traditionally been done using non-instrumental approaches, e.g. Soxhlet extraction. Recent developments have seen the possibility of extraction using instrumental techniques, namely, supercritical fluid extraction, microwave-assisted extraction and pressurised fluid extraction. This review considers the applications of instrumental techniques for the extraction of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, polychlorinated biphenyls and pesticides from soils/sediments. Then, in order to assist the analyst to select the most appropriate technique (traditional versus instrumental techniques), a comparison of their analytical figures of merit is considered.
KW - Extraction
KW - supercritical fluid extraction
KW - microwave-assisted extraction
KW - pressurised fluid extraction
KW - environmental matrices
U2 - 10.1016/S0165-9936(00)00038-8
DO - 10.1016/S0165-9936(00)00038-8
M3 - Article
VL - 19
SP - 553
EP - 564
JO - TrAC - Trends in Analytical Chemistry
JF - TrAC - Trends in Analytical Chemistry
SN - 0165-9936
IS - 9
ER -