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Project title: Sustainable method development for detection of chemical hazards in concentrated food matrices as a base for the interdisciplinary research network development
The research network seeks to develop sustainable, simplified and sensitive method involving the flame atomic absorption spectroscopy to detect chemical hazards (Co, Ni, Cr) in food matrices from thermal spray coating solutions, which are applied to the equipment parts for wear protection. To overcome the lower sensitivity of the flame atomic absorption spectroscopy, food analytes will be concentrated using deep vacuum technique. The reliability of the analytical method will be studied, comparing the flame atomic absorption spectroscopy with graphite furnace atomic absorption spectroscopy, inductively coupled plasma with optical emission detection and total reflection X-ray fluorescence measurements.
Project partners:
- Kaunas University of Technology (Lithuania), https://en.ktu.edu/
Dr. Alvija Šalaševičienė, alvija.salaseviciene@ktu.lt.
- Fraunhofer-Institut für Keramische Technologien und Systeme IKTS (Germany), www.ikts.fraunhofer.de
Privatdoz. Dr.-Ing. Lutz-Michael Berger, lutz-michael.berger@ikts.fraunhofer.de.
- University of Latvia (Latvia), https://www.lu.lv/en/
Dr. habil. chem. Māris Kļaviņš, maris.klavins@lu.lv