VALENSI
Jurnal Kimia VALENSI Volume 8, No. 1, May 2022

The Effect of Acetonitrile Solvent on the Quantitative Determination of Europium (III) by Voltammetry and its Optimization using the Box-Behnken Design

Uji Pratomo (Department of Chemistry Universitas Padjadjaran)
Ari Hardianto (Department of Chemistry Universitas Padjadjaran)
Yeni Wahyuni Hartati (Department of Chemistry Universitas Padjadjaran)
Husein Hernandi Bahti (Department of Chemistry Universitas Padjadjaran)
Santhy Wyantuti (Department of Chemistry Universitas Padjadjaran)



Article Info

Publish Date
26 May 2022

Abstract

There is often a drawback during the determination of Eu in aqueous solvents using the voltammetric method. The current signal from water can reduce that of the element, which causes difficulty while separating the Eu signal from other rare earth elements (REE). Therefore, this study used acetonitrile as a solvent due to its high electrical conductivity and wide potential range. The optimum conditions for the determination of Eu in acetonitrile using the Box-Behnken design include 74.56 seconds deposition time, 0.125 V amplitude modulation, and -2.0 V potential deposition. The platinum electrode's performance showed a recovery value of 98.91% and accuracy and precision (in %RSD) of 96.67% and 1.11%, respectively. Furthermore, detection and quantitation limits of 0.6 mg/L and 5.1 mg/L were recorded from the analysis. It concluded that the differential pulse voltammetry method was applied to determine the presence of Eu in acetonitrile.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

valensi

Publisher

Subject

Chemistry

Description

Jurnal Kimia Valensi is a biannual and peer-reviewed open access journal published by Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta. This journal covering all aspect of ...