High Performance Liquid Chromatograph Coupled to a Tandem Mass Spectrometry (HPLC/MS/MS) for the Detection of Organic Micropollutants in Water

资金正在申请购买一台高效液相色谱仪耦合串联质谱（HPLC/MS/MS），将用于支持滑铁卢大学（UW）土木与环境工程系内三个独立但互补的研究项目。 HPLC/MS/MS是一种重要的分析仪器，用于测量水中的药物、雌激素、全氟化合物和藻毒素等新兴有机微污染物。Peter Huck博士，在过去的20年里担任UW NSERC水处理工业研究主席的保持器，领导了各种研究，其中HPLC/MS/MS是必不可少的。 这些项目包括：（1）评估饮用水处理方案，以去除全氟化合物和蓝藻毒素;（2）去除药物，以实现水的再利用;（3）生物过滤，作为新出现的微污染物的替代处理方法。 Sheree Pagsuyoin博士正在开发一个决策支持系统，用于管理流域中新兴微污染物的生态足迹，他将使用HPLC/MS/MS来测量地表水和地下水中药物，兽药和内分泌干扰化合物的水平。 该设备还将用于量化废水处理过程中选定有机微污染物的去除效率。 Nandita Basu博士正在开发被动现场采样设备，他将使用HPLC/MS/MS来量化在溪流和地下水中部署期间通过这些采样设备的污染物通量。

Funds are being requested to purchase a High Performance Liquid Chromatograph coupled to a tandem Mass Spectrometry (HPLC/MS/MS) that will be used to support three independent but complementary research programs within the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Waterloo (UW). The HPLC/MS/MS is a critical analytical instrument for measuring emerging organic micropollutants such as pharmaceuticals, estrogens, perfluorinated compounds, and cyanotoxins in water. Dr. Peter Huck, holder of the NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Water Treatment at UW for the past 20 years, leads various research studies for which the HPLC/MS/MS is essential. These projects include: (1) evaluation of drinking water treatment options for the removal of perfluorinated compounds and cyanotoxins, (2) removal of pharmaceuticals for water reuse, and (3) biofiltration as an alternative treatment for emerging micropollutants. Dr. Sheree Pagsuyoin, who is developing a decision support system for managing the ecological footprint of emerging micropollutants in watersheds, will use the HPLC/MS/MS to measure the levels of pharmaceuticals, veterinary medicine, and endocrine-disrupting compounds in surface water and groundwater. The equipment will also be used to quantify the removal efficiencies for select organic micropollutants during wastewater treatment. Dr. Nandita Basu, who is developing passive field sampling devices, will use the HPLC/MS/MS to quantify the pollutant fluxes that pass through these sampling devices during deployment in streams and in groundwater.