Badr, E.-S. A., Achterberg, Eric P. , Tappin, A. D., Hill, S. J. and Braungardt, C. B. (2003) Determination of dissolved organic nitrogen in natural waters using high-temperature catalytic oxidation. TrAC - Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 22 (11). pp. 819-827. DOI 10.1016/S0165-9936(03)01202-0.

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Abstract

Studies on nitrogen in natural waters have generally focussed on dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN), primarily because of relative ease of analysis and the important influence of DIN on water quality. Advances in analytical techniques now permit the systematic study of dissolved organic nitrogen (DON), and this work has shown that DON is quantitatively significant in many waters. This article describes the sampling and analytical protocols required for rapid, precise and reliable determinations of DON, involving high-temperature catalytic oxidation (HTCO), coupled to chemiluminescence detection. This approach simultaneously determines dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and total dissolved nitrogen (TDN), and DON is derived by subtraction of DIN measured by colorimetry. The DON determination is simple to perform, exhibits excellent precision (<1 for C and 1.5 for N) and is applicable to a wide range of natural waters. © 2003 Published by Elsevier B.V.

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