Water analysis always require a lot of space to preserve 2 bottles of sample for up 21 days at 4°C and requires a lot of operator time, that can lead to errors.
In order to reduce time and space required and to minimize human error new automated methods are needed.
Automated solid phase microextraction allowed to reduce the amount of sample needed for analysis.
To increase extraction recovery an automated tool for fiber exchange (MFX) have been employed, coupled to GC/MS/MS’s selectivity, sensitivity ad reproducibility allowed to obtain required detection limits for national and international legislations.
Preliminary results showed an encouraging path to follow in order to obtain a fully automated and fully modular tool for waters analysis and it will be further implemented and optimized increasing the number of compounds analyzed, and analytical throughput.