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Title: Monitoring of electrochemically inactive compounds by amperometric toxic gas sensors

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OSTI ID:5130384

A sample of 200 ppM benzene in air was circulated at rate of 10 mL/min past a heated 0.01-cm diameter platinum filament and then past a platinum-black sensing electrode potentiostated at 1.2 V versus RHE (reversible hydrogen electrode) in a 30 weight-% sulfuric acid electrolyte. The current through the electrode increased as the filament temperature was increased to about 600/sup 0/C. Sensing electrodes made of vapor-deposited platinum or platinum-gold alloy on porous polytetrafluorethylene yielded proportionately similar responses, whereas no significant response was obtained under the same conditions with a powdered gold sensing electrode. The room-temperature responses to various test compounds of the four sensing electrodes were measured at electrode potentials ranging from 0.9 V to 1.4 V versus RHE, with and without the heated platinum filament. The following ten compounds were tested: cyclohexane, chloroform, tetrachloroethylene, acetic acid, benzene, nitrobenzene, pyridine, benzyl chloride, ethyl acrylate, and tetrahydrofuran. Only the last two compounds elicited significant responses without the filament. However, with the filament heated to about 600/sup 0/C, each of the tested compounds elicited significant responses under different conditions.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Lab., IL (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
W-31-109-ENG-38
OSTI ID:
5130384
Report Number(s):
CONF-840304-2; ON: DE84009211
Resource Relation:
Conference: 35. Pittsburgh conference and exposition on analytical chemistry and applied spectroscopy, Atlantic City, NJ, USA, 5 Mar 1984
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English