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Enhanced Chemiluminescence as an Indicator of Water Quality
Author(s) -
Sawcer K. E.,
Yeomans W. E.,
Thorpe G. H. G.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
water and environment journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1747-6593
pISSN - 1747-6585
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-6593.1999.tb01030.x
Subject(s) - chemiluminescence , effluent , reagent , sewage , chemistry , light emission , water quality , emission intensity , environmental chemistry , environmental science , chromatography , environmental engineering , materials science , optoelectronics , organic chemistry , ion , ecology , biology
The enhanced chemiluminescence test is based upon monitoring the emission of light from an enhanced chemiluminescence reaction in the presence of an environmental sample and comparing it with a similar reaction using a de‐ionized water control sample. The presence of polluting materials can be detected by changes in the intensity and the kinetics of light emission. This trial demonstrated that the effects of components within a sewage‐works' effluent are detected by enhanced chemiluminescence and that this test has moderately close correlation with parallel bacterial determinations. A high correlation was achieved between the performances of two commercially available enhanced chemiluminescence reagents, and these reagents responded consistently to the effects of a sewage‐works' effluent on the quality of a small river.