Cheng LI, Wenfang SONG, Yubai SHI, Zhiwei QING

Detection of alkanolamines in liquid cement grinding aids by HPLC coupled with evaporative light scattering detector

Triethanolamine (TEA), triisopropanolamine (TIPA), diethanol isopropanolamine (DEIPA) are necessary cement additives, and knowing their contents is needed for quality control and also to understand final properties of the cement. Whether it is the production of grinding aids, technical research and development or application research all involve the detection of grinding aids. This work developed a simple analytical technique for the simultaneous analysis of these alkanolamines in liquid cement grinding aids using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) combined with evaporative light scattering detection (ELSD). HPLC was conducted by an XBridge C18 column (with dimensions 4.6 × 250 mm and 5 μm particles) using methanol and 0.1% trichloroacetic acid as mobile elution phases. The ELSD sprayer and drift tube temperatures were 60 ºC and 90 ºC, respectively. HPLC-ELSD developed in this work demonstrated 1) high sensitivity with limits of detection for the three analytes are 0.15, 0.54, 1.04 μg/mL; 2) good linearity with correlation coefficients equal to 0.997–0.999 over the tested concentration range; 3) excellent repeatability with intra- and interday coefficient of variation (CV) below 2.71% and 4, satisfactory accuracy with recovery in the 95.5%–100.8% range. This novel method is a powerful, time- and costeffective tool for alkanolamine analyses and quality control.

Keywords:

Diethanol isopropanolamine, triisopropanolamine, HPLC-ELSD; triethanolamine, cement grinding aids,

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