Comparison of commercial cation exchange media for performing marine Toxicity Identification Evaluations (TIEs)
- Environmental Protection Agency, Narragansett, RI (United States)
In the environment, adverse effects of metals resulting from anthropogenic activity can be manifested as effluent, receiving water, and sediment toxicity to aquatic organisms. In TIEs, the chelator EDTA is commonly used to discriminate metal toxicity from other possible sources of toxicity present in an environmental sample. EDTA is extremely effective at reducing the aqueous bioavailability of toxic divalent transition metals (e.g., Cd, Cu, Ni, Pb, Zn) but, unlike C{sub 18} solid phase extraction (SPE), EDTA does not allow for retrieval of toxicity or toxicants for further identification. In this presentation, the authors report the results of comparisons of five commercially available cation exchange media for use in TIEs. Cation exchange media included three pre-packed SPE columns (Alltech, Supelco, Waters) and two loose packing materials evaluated with both metal spiked seawater and deionized water. Preliminary comparisons demonstrated that Alltech and Supelco SPE columns functioned most effectively. Blank toxicity to two marine species was not observed. Extensive studies of Alltech and Supelco columns using seawater spiked with a range of metal concentrations (e.g., 600 to 10 {micro}g/L) illustrated good precision and quality. both columns removed, on average, {ge} 90% of five metals from seawater. Furthermore, when eluted with small volumes of acid, {ge} 85% of original metal levels were recovered. Evaluations performed with a metal plating industry effluent demonstrated effective removal and subsequent elution of several toxic metals. This study shows the utility of commercial cation exchange columns for removing metals from seawater, and freshwater, for TIE applications.
- OSTI ID:
- 372544
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9511137-; ISBN 1-880611-03-1; TRN: IM9641%%621
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 2. Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) world conference, Vancouver (Canada), 5-9 Nov 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Second SETAC world congress (16. annual meeting): Abstract book. Global environmental protection: Science, politics, and common sense; PB: 378 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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