Flow Injection Analysis: Instrumentation and Applications

    The concept of flow injection analysis (FIA) was introduced in the mid-seventies. It was preceded by the success of segmented flow analysis, mainly in clinical and environmental analysis. This advance, as well as the development of continuous monitors for process control and environmental monitors, ensured the success of the FIA methodology. As an exceptionally effective means of mechanization for various procedures of wet chemical analysis, the FIA methodology, in use with a whole arsenal of detection methods of modern analytical chemistry, proved to be of great interest to many.

The fast and intensive development of the FIA methodology was due to several factors essential for routine analytical determinations, such as very limited sample consumption, the short analysis time based on a transient signal measurement in a flow-through detector and an on-line carrying out difficult operations of separation, preconcentration or physicochemical conversion of analytes into detectable species.
Twenty-year studies by numerous research groups all over the world have provided significant progress in the theoretical description of dispersion phenomena in FIA and various operations of physicochemical treatment of the analyte. This volume is devoted to the presentation of the current status of development of the instrumentation for FIA and the many fields of its practical applications, based on an extensive bibliography of original research publications.

INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1.Molecular Spectroscopy Detection
1.Visible Absorption Spectrophtometry
2.Detection in the Ultraviolet Region?
3.Infrared Detecdtion
4.Turbidimetric Detection
5.Molecular Luminsence Detechion Methods
6.Other Moleclar Spectroscopic Detection Methods
7.References
CHAPTER 2.Atomic Spectroscopy Detection Methods
1.Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy
2.Atomic Emission Spectroscopy
3.Atomic Fluorescence Spectroscopy
4.References
CHAPTER 3.Electrochemical Detection Methods
1.Potentiometric Detection
2.Amperometric Detection
3.Scanning and Stripping Metrods
4.Conductometric Detection
5.Flow Injection Coulometry
6.References
CHPATER 4.Enzymatic Methods of Detection and Immunoassays
1.Enzymatic Assays
2.Flow Injection Immunoassys
3.References
CHAPTER 5.Other Detection Methods Used in FIA
1.Photoacosutic Spectroscopic Detecion
2.Flovw Injiection Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectromety
3.FIA in the Gaseous Phase
4.References
CHAPTER 6.On-Line Sample Processing in FIA Systems
CHAPTER 7.Speciation Analysis Using Flow Injection Methodology
CHAPTER 8.Applications of Flow Injection Methods in Routine Analysis
CHAPTER 9.Sequential and Batch Injection Techniques
CHAPTER 10.Commercially Available Instrumentation for FIA
CHAPTER 11.Current Trends in Developments of Flow Analysis