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Multicriteria decision analysis in ranking of analytical procedures for aldrin determination in water

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The study presents the possibility of multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) application when choosing analytical procedures with low environmental impact. A type of MCDA, Preference Ranking Organization Method for Enrichment Evaluations (PROMETHEE), was chosen as versatile tool that meets all the analytical chemists – decision makers requirements. Twenty five analytical procedures for aldrin determination in water samples (as an example) were selected as input alternatives to MCDA analysis. Nine different criteria describing the alternatives were chosen from different groups – metrological, economical and the most importantly – environmental impact. The weights for each criterion were obtained from questionnaires that were sent to experts, giving three different scenarios for MCDA results. The results of analysis show that PROMETHEE is very promising tool to choose the analytical procedure with respect to its greenness. The rankings for all three scenarios placed solid phase microextraction and liquid phase microextraction – based procedures high, while liquid–liquid extraction, solid phase extraction and stir bar sorptive extraction – based procedures were placed low in the ranking. The results show that although some of the experts do not intentionally choose green analytical chemistry procedures, their MCDA choice is in accordance with green chemistry principles. The PROMETHEE ranking results were compared with more widely accepted green analytical chemistry tools – NEMI and Eco-Scale. As PROMETHEE involved more different factors than NEMI, the assessment results were only weakly correlated. Oppositely, the results of Eco-Scale assessment were well-correlated as both methodologies involved similar criteria of assessment.

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Category:
Articles
Type:
artykuł w czasopiśmie wyróżnionym w JCR
Published in:
JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY A no. 1387, pages 116 - 122,
ISSN: 0021-9673
Language:
English
Publication year:
2015
Bibliographic description:
Tobiszewski M., Orłowski A.: Multicriteria decision analysis in ranking of analytical procedures for aldrin determination in water// JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY A. -Vol. 1387, (2015), s.116-122
DOI:
Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.1016/j.chroma.2015.02.009
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Gdańsk University of Technology

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