Determination of trace uranium by the method of pulse ultraviolet fluorescence

The method of pulse ultraviolet fluorescence was employed to analyze the concentration of radioactive nuclide uranium after adsorbed by baker's yeast. Influences of fluorescent enhance reagent, pH value, and temperature on measurement of the concentration of trace uranium were investigated. The results showed that 400 μL fluorescent enhance reagent was greatly enough to buffer the solution when pH ≥ 3 and the counts of fluorescence kept constant with the variation of pH, which indicates that the pH of solutions doesn't affect the determination of uranium concentration, moreover, the counts of fluorescence declined linearly as the increase of the temperature. In addition, the working curve of the determination of uranium concentration within 0.1 ∼20 μg/L was obtained when the temperature was 23.6 ℃. On this basis, the adsorption of uranium by baker's yeast was studied. For the adsorption of radioactive nuclides of uranium by baker's yeast to achieve the best use. the batch experiments were carried out on the rate of adsorption and pH of solutions. The method of pulse ultraviolet fluorescence was used to measure and found that the minimum time required to reach adsorption equilibrium was 180 min and the optimum pH value of solutions was about 5.8. (authors)