Desenvolvimento de um método empregando HPLC-HG-AFS para especiação de arsênio em arroz e uso de hidróxido duplo lamelar incorporado com nitroprussiato para adsorção de arsênio

• Ano de defesa: 2020
• Autor(a) principal: Gabriella Alexandre Borges
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; Brasil; ICX - DEPARTAMENTO DE QUÍMICA; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Química; UFMG
• Palavras-chave em Português: Arsênio; Arroz; Especiação; Adsorção; Arsenic; Rice; Speciation; Adsorption; Química analítica; Resíduos de arsênio; Especiação química; Cromatografia líquida de alta eficiência; Espectrometria de Fluorescência
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/35888

Arsenic contamination in food and potable water is of worldwide concern, due to the toxic effects of the substance in humans. Chapter 2 of this work describes the development of a method using high performance liquid chromatography coupled with hydride generation atomic fluorescence spectrometry (HPLC-HG-AFS) for the determination and speciation of the inorganic and organic forms of arsenic most commonly found in rice samples: arsenate (As(V)), arsenite (As(III)), monomethylarsonic acid (MMA), and dimethylarsinic acid (DMA). The best chromatographic resolution was obtained at pH 6.2, using a mobile phase concentration of 20 mmol L-1 and flow rate of 0.57 mL min-1, 5.55% v/v HCl, and 0.90% m/v NaBH4. The accuracy of the method was confirmed by the low relative error values obtained in analysis of a certified reference material (NIST 1568b): 6.63% total inorganic As, 3.44% DMA, 0% MMA, and 0.53% total As. The proposed method presented satisfactory recoveries of 100.8% and 102.1% for rice samples A and H, respectively. Chapter 3 describes a novel procedure for the removal of As(III), As(V), and DMA from water using a lamellar double hydroxide combined with nitroprusside (DLH-NP). The material was found to be selective for arsenic species, as a function of pH. At pH 2.00, all the As(V) was adsorbed, together with part of the DMA (25%). At pH 6.02 and pH 12.00, only As(III) and As(V) were adsorbed, with greater potential for the adsorption of As(V). For the adsorption of As(V) on LDH-NP at pH 2.00 and 6.02, the Langmuir model provided the best fit to the experimental data R² = 0.9996 and 0.9501, respectively. The maximum adsorption capacity (qmax) (77.63 and 18.84 mg g-1) are in agreement with the value obtained experimentally (76.9 and 18.0 mg g-1), respectively. At pH 12.00, the Freundlich model provided the best fits, with R² values of 0.9912. The kinetics of the process showed that the adsorption was favorable as the time for removing As (V) using LDH-NP is low (less than 30 minutes).