Multiple-phase equilibration headspace analysis for the determination of N2O and N2 during bacterial denitrification

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Abstract

A gas-handling manifold for the preparation, introduction and analysis by gas chromatography (GC) system of the gaseous products of denitrification is described. A procedure of multiple-phase equilibration is adopted which allows the quantitative determination of the total gas present in sample vials. Assumptions of solubility coefficients are not required as these are determined during the analysis. The method is particularly suited to gases of appreciable solubilities as a significant proportion of the gas will be found in the liquid phase. This method was used for the determination of the stoichiometry of denitrification, in washed cells of Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides f. sp. denitrificans, namely NO2:N2 and N2O:N2, which were found to be 2:1 and 1:1, respectively.

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