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Development of five-parameter in situ seawater nutrients analyzer

GUO Cui-lian, ZHANG Shu-wei, CHENG Yong-qiang*, MA Ran, CHU Dong-zhi, ZHANG Li   

  1. Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Ocean Environmental Monitoring Technology Institute of Oceanographic Instrumentation,Institute of Oceanographic Instrumentation,Qilu University of Technology(Shandong Academy of Sciences),Qingdao 266001,China
  • Received:2017-09-12 Online:2018-04-20 Published:2018-04-20

Abstract:

A five-parameter in situ seawater nutrients analyzer was developed based on wet chemical reaction principle, combined the spectrophotometric method with flow injection analysis technology. A loop flow was controlled by peristaltic pump and three-way valve in this analyzer, which has the advantages of small size, high-stability, lowreagent consumption and high automation. The linear range, detection limit, accuracy and precision of the instrument were verified through the experiment. The detection linear ranges for nitrite, nitrate, ammonium, phosphate and silicate were 5~250, 10~500, 10~500, 10~300 and 10~1 000 μg/L, respectively. The minimum detection limits for nitrite, nitrate, ammonium, phosphate and silicate were 0.81, 3.01, 1.79, 2.54 and 3.02 μg/L, respectively. The relative standard deviations (RSD) for nitrite, ammonium and silicate were less than 3% and the relative standard deviations (RSD) for nitrate and phosphate were less than 5%. The on-site comparison tests between the developed nutrients analyzer and the national standard methods were finished, and the results were basically the same, which indicated that the analyzer was entirely feasible and could reflect the content and changes of the nutrients in the seawater. The nutrients analyzer can be loaded on vessel, stations, buoy platform, and also can be used in the laboratory.

Key words: nutrients, seawater analysis, sensor development, in situ monitoring

CLC Number: 

  • TH766+.14