Abstract:
A sensor for
n-butyl ether was designed and fabricated based on the cataluminescence (CTL) action at the surface of nano-ZnO, and a method for rapid determination of
n-butyl ether in air was proposed. At the detection wavelength of 440 nm, and under reaction temperature of 288℃, with air flowrate of 280 mL·min
-1, linear relationship between the CTL intensities and mass concentrations of
n-butyl ether was found in the range of 30.0-2 000 mg·m
-3, with detection limit (3S/N) 12.0 mg·m
-3. The proposed method was applied to determination of
n-butyl ether in air samples, giving results in consistency with those obtained by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS).