| Description |
Ion chromatography can be used for the rapid separation and determination of ions in aqueous solutions that would otherwise require a plethora of classical wet chemical techniques. Ion chromatography is finding increasing use in environmental analysis as well as the petroleum and fossil fuel industries. In the present work an investigation of the use of ion chromatography to determine environmentally significant anions present in oil shale leachates was undertaken. Nadkarni et al. have used ion chromatography to separate and quantify halogen, sulfur and nitrogen species in oil shales after combustion in a Parr bomb. Potts and Potas used ion chromatography to monitor inorganic ions in cooling tower wastewater from coal gasification. Wallace and coworkers have used ion chromatography to determine anions encountered in retort wastewaters. The ions of interest in this work were the ions of sulfur oxides including sulfite, sulfate, thiosulfate, dithionite, dithionate, peroxyodisulfate, and tetrathionate, and thiocyanate, sulfide, hydrosulfide, cyanide, thiocyanate, and cyanate. A literature search was completed and a leaching procedure developed. |
