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J.Health Sci., 45(3), 111-118, 1999

A Fundamental Study on the Characteristics of Concentration Using a Blue Chitin Column for Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Water

Akira Nagai, Yoshinao Kano, Ryozo Funasaka, and Katsuhiko Nakamuro

Gifu Research Center for Public Health, 4-6, Akebono-cho, Gifu 500-8148, Japan and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Setsunan University, 45-1 Nagaotoge-cho, Hirakata, Osaka 573-0101, Japan

In order to evaluate the contribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) to mutagenicity of concentrates from water, the adsorption, elution and recovery behavior of 26 PAHs bearing 3 to 6 rings were investigated by the Blue Chitin column method. The adsorption rates of 22 PAHs, having three or more fused rings, to Blue Chitin were over 90%. Elution rates of PAHs with 4 and 5 rings and nitroarenes (NO2-PAHs) adsorbed on Blue Chitin were 50 -70% with 100 ml of methanol-ammonia (CH3OH-NH4OH) (50 : 1). However, elution rates of PAHs with 3 and 6 rings and aminoarenes (NH2-PAHs) were 0 -40% with 100 ml of the same mixed eluate. However, additional elution with 20 ml of dichloromethane (CH2Cl2) following the elution with 100 ml of CH3OH-NH4OH (50 : 1) raised the elution ratio by 10 -30%. Elution employing CH2Cl2 was thus more effective for elution of PAHs adsorbed to Blue Chitin. Using this preconcentration method on a modified Blue Chitin column, fluoranthene, pyrene, benz[a]anthracene, chrysene, benzo[b]fluoranthene, benzo[k]fluoranthene, benzo[a]pyrene and dibenz[a,h]anthracene in effluent water and fluoranthene, pyrene and benzo[k]fluoranthene in river water were detected. In summary, this preconcentration method using a modified Blue Chitin column was useful for concentration of PAHs and NO2-PAHs with 4 and 5 rings from environmental water.