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  • Title: Implications of polar organic chemical integrative sampler for high membrane sorption and suitability of polyethersulfone as a single-phase sampler.
    Author: Suchana S, Passeport E.
    Journal: Sci Total Environ; 2022 Dec 01; 850():157898. PubMed ID: 35952872.
    Abstract:
    Polar organic chemical integrative sampler (POCIS) contains sorbent, which is typically enclosed between two polyethersulfones (PES) membranes. A significant PES uptake is reported for many contaminants, yet, aqueous concentration is mainly correlated with the sorbent uptake using first-order kinetics. Under high PES sorption, the first-order kinetics often provide erroneous sampling rate for the sorbent phase due to increased membrane resistance. This work evaluated the uptake of four high PES sorbing chemicals, i.e., three Cl- and CH3-substituted nitrobenzenes and one chlorinated aniline using POCIS and the potential of a single-phase PES sampler using laboratory experiments. POCIS calibration results demonstrated that both sorbent and membrane had similar affinity for the target compounds. A rapid PES sorption occurred in the earlier days (<7 days) followed by a gradual increase in the PES phase concentration (equilibrium not achieved after 60 days). Especially, the membrane was the primary sink for 3,4-dichloroaniline and 3,4-dichloronitrobenzene for up to 14 and 31 days, respectively. On the other hand, the single-phase PES sampler showed similar mass uptake as POCIS and reached equilibrium within 19 days under static condition, indicating its potential suitability in the equilibrium regime. PES-water partition coefficient of the target compounds was between 1.2 and 6.5 L/g. Finally, we present a poly-parameter linear-free energy relationship (pp-LFER) using published data to predict the PES-water partition coefficients. The pp-LFER models showed moderate predictability as indicated by R2adj values between 0.7 and 0.9 for both internal and external data set consisting of a wide range of hydrophobic and hydrophilic compounds (-0.1 ≤ logKOW ≤ 7.4). The proposed pp-LFER model can be used to screen high PES-sorbing chemicals to increase the reliability and accuracy of aqueous concentration prediction from POCIS sampling and to select the most appropriate sampling approach for new compounds.
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