COULOMETRIC TOTAL CARBON-DIOXIDE ANALYSIS FOR MARINE STUDIES - AUTOMATION AND CALIBRATION
COULOMETRIC TOTAL CARBON-DIOXIDE ANALYSIS FOR MARINE STUDIES - AUTOMATION AND CALIBRATION
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DOI:
10.1016/0304-4203(87)90033-8
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发表时间:
1987-07-01
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影响因子:
3
通讯作者:
BRANDSTROM, L
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作者:
JOHNSON, KM;SIEBURTH, JM;BRANDSTROM, L
An automated instrument for the coulometric detection of total carbon dioxide (TCO2) was developed from the manual prototype of Johnson et al. Pure CO2was used to calibrate the detector, the whole analytical procedure was controlled by a microcomputer, and the unit was compact enough for field and shipboard use. Some 67 samples from the Askö field station on the Baltic Sea (salinity = 6; TCO2ranging from 1224.3 to 1276.1 μmol l−1with a mean of 1245.6 μmol l−1) and 31 samples from Swedish lakes (TCO2ranging from 19.5 to 252.3 μmol l−1with a mean of 72.9 μmol l−1) were analyzed. The pooled standard deviation of these analyses was ± 1.0 μmol l−1(% CV of 0.08 and 1.3%, respectively). Precisions of < 0.1% were routine for waters exceeding 1000 μmol l−1TCO2. At Askö on the Baltic Sea, the mean absolute difference between coulometric and pH-alkalinity determinations of TCO2on 22 parallel samples was 6.7 μmol kg−1or 0.5% of the mean. Community metabolism studies gave maximum rates of net production (TCO2uptake) and respiration (TCO2production) of 0.9-1.2 and 0.3-0.5 μmol l−1b−1, respectively. The results of this study provide solutions to the problems observed with the earlier manual prototype.