Determination of beryllium in drinking water by fluorimetric method

INTRODUCTION

Lumex Instruments provides sensitive and selective fluorimetric method for the measurement of mass concentration of beryllium in drinking water samples using the Fluorat-02 analyzer.

METHOD

The fluorimetric method for the determination of beryllium is based on the formation of a complex compound between beryllium and morin in alkaline medium in the presence of masking agents followed by the measurement of fluorescence intensity of the formed complex compound using Fluorat-02 analyzer.
The result appears on the PC-operated FluoRate software.

To separate and concentrate beryllium from the sample the sorption of beryllium by silica gel at pH 6.0 and following desorption with hydrochloric acid solution while heating is used.