• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.209-213
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• 2012

Purpose: This study was performed to develop a simple, disposable thin-film optical nitrate sensor. Methods: The sensor was fabricated by applying a nitrate-selective polymer membrane on the surface of a thin polyester film. The membrane was composed of polyvinylchloride (PVC), plasticizer, fluorescent dye, and nitrate-selective ionophore. Fluorescence intensity of the sensor increased on contact with a nitrate solution. The fluorescence response of the optical nitrate sensor was measured with a commercial fluorospectrometer. Results: The optical sensor exhibited linear response over four concentration decades. Conclusions: Nitrate ion concentrations in plant nutrient solutions can be determined by direct optical measurements without any conditioning before measurements.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제53권3호
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• pp.269-275
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• 2015

질산이온 선택성 탄소전극(NSCE, nitrate-selective carbon electrode)에서 전원공급 방식에 따른 이온들의 흡착특성을 분석하였다. 질산이온에 선택성이 높은 음이온수지 분말을 탄소전극에 코팅하여 NSCE를 제조하였다. 질산과 염소이온의 혼합용액에 대해 정전압(CV, constant voltage)과 정전류(CC, constant current) 모드에서 축전식 탈염(CDI, capacitive deionization)을 실시하였다. 이온들의 총 흡착량은 CV 모드로 운전한 경우 CC 모드에 비해 약 15% 증가하였다. 혼합용액에서 질산이온의 비율은 26%로 낮았지만 흡착된 질산이온의 몰비율은 최대 58%로 나타나 NSCE가 질산이온을 선택적으로 제거하는데 효과적임을 확인하였다. CC 모드에서 운전한 경우 흡착된 질산이온의 몰비율은 흡착기간 동안 55~58%로 일정하였다. 반면 CV 모드에서는 30~58%로 큰 차이를 보였다. 이를 통해 셀에 공급되는 전류가 질산이온의 선택적 제거율을 결정하는데 중요한 인자임을 알 수 있었다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.221-226
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• 1995

A method for determining nitrate in post treatment chromium plating solutions with PVC-based nitrate-selective electrodes is described. PVC-based nitrate-selective membranes which contain TDMANO3 ion-exchanger in PVC/NPOE, PVC/DOA or PVC/DBP matrices, and a commercially available Corning electrode (No. 476134) have been compared in respect of their detection limits, response slopes, selectivities at various pHs, and dynamic response to the hydrochromate ion in basic condition. The PVC/DBP/TDMANO3 membrane electrode was chosen as the ISE detector for the determination of nitrate in the presence of hydrochromate interference. The amount of nitrate in real post treatment chromium plating solution could be determined successfully with this electrode in both static and flow-injection measurements when the sample was properly diluted with an alkaline buffer.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.463-473
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• 2006

Automated sensing of soil macronutrients would allow more efficient mapping of soil nutrient spatial variability for variable-rate nutrient management. The capabilities of ion-selective electrodes for sensing macronutrients in soil extracts can be affected by the presence of other ions in the soil itself as well as by high concentrations of ions in soil extractants. Adoption of automated, on-the-go sensing of soil nutrients would be enhanced if a single extracting solution could be used for the concurrent extraction of multiple soil macronutrients. This paper reports on the ability of the Kelowna extractant to extract macronutrients (N, P, and K) from US Corn Belt soils and whether previously developed PVC-based nitrate and potassium ion-selective electrodes could determine the nitrate and potassium concentrations in soil extracts obtained using the Kelowna extractant. The extraction efficiencies of nitrate-N and phosphorus obtained with the Kelowna solution for seven US Corn Belt soils were comparable to those obtained with IM KCI and Mehlich III solutions when measured with automated ion and ICP analyzers, respectively. However, the potassium levels extracted with the Kelowna extractant were, on average, 42% less than those obtained with the Mehlich III solution. Nevertheless, it was expected that Kelowna could extract proportional amounts of potassium ion due to a strong linear relationship ($r^2$ = 0.96). Use of the PVC-based nitrate and potassium ion-selective electrodes proved to be feasible in measuring nitrate-N and potassium ions in Kelowna - soil extracts with almost 1 : 1 relationships and high coefficients of determination ($r^2$ > 0.9) between the levels of nitrate-N and potassium obtained with the ion-selective electrodes and standard analytical instruments.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.37-43
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• 2007

This study was carried out to investigate the applicability of PVC membrane-based ion-selective electrodes for macronutrients (K, Ca, and N) by measuring of potassium, calcium, nitrate ions in hydroponic nutrient solution. The capabilities of two ion-selective membranes with varying chemical compositions for each ion were evaluated in terms of sensitivity, selectivity, and lifetime to choose sensing elements suitable for measuring typical ranges of nutrient concentrations in hydroponic solutions. The selected calcium and nitrate ion-selective membranes showed effectively sensitive responses to calcium and nitrate ions with lifetimes of 25 and 15 days, respectively. The addition of a cation additive to the potassium membrane cocktail allowed its sensitivity to be increased whereas its lifetime was reduced from 30 days to 10 days.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제21권12호
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• pp.1449-1454
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• 2012

The ion selective microelectrodes (ISME) have been applied to observe the continuous profiles of NO3-N and NH4-N in bulk solutions or biofilms. In order to evaluate the performance and applicability of ion concentration measuring system, the characteristics, such as slope of calibration curve, detection limit and potentiometric selectivity coefficient were investigated. The slopes of calibration curve showed high degree of correspondence for each target ion concentrations. And the detection limits of nitrate and ammonia ion selective microelectrode were 10-4.7 M and 10-4.4 M, respectively. These ion selective microelectrodes were proved that their own performance could be maintained for 16 days after making. NO3-N and NH4-N selective microelectrodes were also adapted to detect the continuous ion profiles of cilia media packed MLE (Modified Ludzack-Ettinger) process. And the monitored nitrate and ammonia ion profiles with the ion selective microelectrode were stable and well corresponded to the results with conventional ion chromatograph. However, the electric potential was unstable until 8 hr because of the unknown noise. The tip shape and performance of the ion selective microelectrode was stably kept over 2 days continuous monitoring.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.319-323
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• 2000

Nitrate-selective ion exchange resin which have bulky tertiary amine as functional group have been synthesized by the reaction of chloromethylated polystyrene-divinylbenzene copolymer and the corresponding tertiary amine [$NR_3=NE_{t3} 1, N{(C_2 H_4 H_3)}_32]$in ethanol, while commercial resin has $NMe_3$ as functional group. The fundamental properties such as bulk density, water content, appearance index, exchange capacity, effective size, uniformity coefficient of synthesized anion exchange resin (1) have been measured. The ion exchange resin (1) and (2) exhibited the better selectivity for nitrate than sulfate in both batch and continuous column experiments.

• 공업화학
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.49-54
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• 2013

혼합용액에서 nitrate 이온을 선택적으로 제거하기 위해 복합탄소전극을 제조하였다. 질산이온 선택성 수지(BHP55, Bonlite Co.) 분말을 탄소전극 표면에 코팅하여 전극을 제조하였다. 제조한 전극으로 BHP55 셀을 제작하여 chloride, nitrate, sulfate 이온이 혼합된 용액에 대해 축전식 탈염 실험을 수행하였다. 그리고 BHP55 셀에서의 질산 이온 제거량을 이온교환막을 결합한 MCDI 셀의 결과와 비교하였다. BHP55 셀에서 이온의 총 흡착량은 MCDI 셀에서 보다 31% 증가한 $38.3meq/m^2$를 나타냈다. 또한 BHP55 셀에서 질산 이온의 흡착량은 $15.9meq/m^2$ (전체 흡착량의 42%)이었고, 이는 MCDI 셀에서 보다 2.1배 큰 것으로 나타났다. 실험결과 제조한 복합탄소전극은 음이온 혼합용액에서 질산 이온을 선택적으로 제거하는데 매우 효과적임을 알 수 있었다.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.383-392
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• 1992

(Bakelite-A)-(2,2'-Bipyridine)-Ni(Ⅱ) Nitrate 착물 막전극이 질산 이온 선택성 막전극이 됨을 확인하였다. 이 막전극은 수소 이온이나 2가 및 3가 음이온에는 감응하지 아니하였고, 특히 이 막전극의 수명, 감응 농도 범위, 감응 시간 및 이온 선택성 등 전기 화학적 성질과 착물 리간드의 유성도 크기 사이의 관계를 비료 고찰하였고, 또한 막의 최적 조건의 착물조성 구조로부터 막의 이온교환 메카니즘을 고찰하였다.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.99-107
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• 1985

A coated wire ion selective electrode for nitrate (nitrate-CWE_ was constructed using epoxy resin, ion exchanger and plasticizer as a polymer membrane. It's stility, the composition of a polymer membrane, the response characteristics, the selectivity were examined and applied to the environmental analysis. The nitrate-CWE was prepared using a copper wire, wihch was coated with epoxy resin being incorporated with the nitrate ion exchanger and plasticizer. The best composition of the polymer membrane for the nitrate-CWE was obtained by mixing epoxy resin, ion exchanger and plasticizer in the ratio of 2:1:0.4. The potential (56.3$\pm$0.5 mV) of stick form nitrate-CWE in this composition was close to that (59.2 mV) of Nernstian response. The detection limit for nitrate ion were found to the about $6 \times 10^{-5}M$ and the useful pH was 2.5 $\sim$ 10.3. Furthermore, the selectivity of iodide and perchrorate for the nitrage-CWE was also much improved compared with that for a liquid membrane nitrate electrode. The nitrate-CWE was used to determind $NO_x$ in stack gas. The results were in good agreement with those obtained either by electrode method or by the improved NEDA method within a relative error of 4.0%.