Document Type

Patent

Publication Date

3-13-2012

Patent Number

patent number 8133740

Abstract

Disclosed are methods, materials and systems that can be used to determine qualitatively or quantitatively the level of uranium contamination in water samples. Beneficially, disclosed systems are relatively simple and cost-effective. For example, disclosed systems can be utilized by consumers having little or no training in chemical analysis techniques. Methods generally include a concentration step and a complexation step. Uranium concentration can be carried out according to an extraction chromatographic process and complexation can chemically bind uranium with a detectable substance such that the formed substance is visually detectable. Methods can detect uranium contamination down to levels even below the MCL as established by the EPA.

Application Number

12/543856

Assignees

Clemson University Research Foundation (Clemson, SC, US)

Filing Date

2009-08-19

Primary/U.S. Class

436/82

Other/U.S. Class

436/73, 436/164, 436/166

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