Analysis of Ionic Mercury Species in SRR Samples Measured by SRNL and Eurofins FGS
- Savannah River Site (SRS), Aiken, SC (United States). Savannah River National Lab. (SRNL)
Savannah River Remediation (SRR) requested the development of mercury speciation capabilities at the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) to support the Liquid Waste Operations at SRS. As part of that method development, SRR requested that SRNL Analytical Development (AD) compare their results with those obtained from their outside contract laboratory, Eurofins Frontier Global Sciences (FGS). This document reports on this method development work performed at SRNL as well as the comparative analyses conducted between the two laboratories. Development, optimization, and validation were undertaken at SRNL to produce a method for the species-specific analysis of ionic mercury. This method was developed as a secondary step to an existing method, L16.1-ADS-1579 Purgeable Mercury Cold Vapor Atomic Fluorescence Spectrophotometry. As such, much of the development and validation were performed in service of development of L16.1-ADS-1579. Six samples, representing two consecutive quarterly Tank 50 batches, were tested for ionic mercury by SRNL-AD and Eurofins FGS. The mean values reported by each lab for ionic mercury differed by less than one standard deviation, therefore the values reported by both labs were considered to be in agreement. SRNL-AD reported values for the six samples that differed by -5.56 mean percent, relative to Eurofins FGS. Together with comparable quality control data reported by each laboratory, these data represent a high level of agreement among both laboratories. With a viable method for ionic mercury that matches the data quality provided by outside commercial laboratories, SRNL-AD has demonstrated competency in measuring methylmercury, ethylmercury, total mercury, soluble & particulate mercury, purgeable mercury, and ionic mercury species in a variety of radioactive tank samples.
- Research Organization:
- Savannah River Site (SRS), Aiken, SC (United States); Savannah River National Lab (SRNL), Aiken, SC (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Environmental Management (EM)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC09-08SR22470
- OSTI ID:
- 1632838
- Report Number(s):
- SRNL-STI--2020-00081
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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