Publication detail

Use of thermogravimetry for qualitative and quantitative analysis of microplastics in soils

KUČERÍK, J. FOJT, J. KABELÍKOVÁ, L. PALUCHOVÁ, N. KAMENÍKOVÁ, E. BRTNICKÝ, M. DOLEŽALOVÁ WEISSMANNOVÁ, H. DAVID, J.

Original Title

Use of thermogravimetry for qualitative and quantitative analysis of microplastics in soils

Type

abstract

Language

English

Original Abstract

Fragments of plastics (microplastics) are currently considered as contaminants harmful for various environmental compartments and biota. In soil, their analysis is hampered by soil matrix complexity and certain chemical and physical similarities between some plastics and soil organic matter. For this reason, the methods for identification are time consuming and laborious due to the need to separate the microplastics from soil matrix, and therefore, approaches for direct microplastics analysis are of importance. Recently, we have reported several approaches for direct analysis of microplastics in soils including analysis of gases evolved from thermally degraded plastics (evolved gas analysis) [1] and comparison of mass losses obtained by thermo-oxidative degradation (thermogravimetry, TG) [2]. The latter includes two approaches, the first one uses non-contaminated soil, while its TG record is subtracted from the TG record of soil containing microplastics. In the second approach, the uncontaminated soil is replaced by a combination of equations, which reflect the mutual relationship between various soil compartments derived from natural soils and represent a soil universal model. In this work, we describe the development and validation of the TG approaches for detection of a wide range of microplastics including PET, PE, PVC, PS and PHB. In particular, we show the development and testing of all possible scenarios and discuss the weaknesses and positives of the developed approaches.

Keywords

Soil, microplastics, thermogravimetry

Authors

KUČERÍK, J.; FOJT, J.; KABELÍKOVÁ, L.; PALUCHOVÁ, N.; KAMENÍKOVÁ, E.; BRTNICKÝ, M.; DOLEŽALOVÁ WEISSMANNOVÁ, H.; DAVID, J.

Released

30. 8. 2019

ISBN

978-3-940237-59-0

Book

Book of abstracts of the 5th Central and Eastern European Conference on Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (CEEC-TAC5) and 14th Mediterranean Conference on Calorimetry and Thermal Analysis

Pages from

153

Pages to

153

Pages count

1

BibTex

@misc{BUT158482,
  author="KUČERÍK, J. and FOJT, J. and KABELÍKOVÁ, L. and PALUCHOVÁ, N. and KAMENÍKOVÁ, E. and BRTNICKÝ, M. and DOLEŽALOVÁ WEISSMANNOVÁ, H. and DAVID, J.",
  title="Use of thermogravimetry for qualitative and quantitative analysis of microplastics in soils",
  booktitle="Book of abstracts of the 5th Central and Eastern European Conference on Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (CEEC-TAC5) and 14th Mediterranean Conference on Calorimetry and Thermal Analysis",
  year="2019",
  pages="153--153",
  isbn="978-3-940237-59-0",
  note="abstract"
}