A low-cost and effective bagasse-based magnetic porous biochar as an adsorbent for solid phase extraction of triazine herbicides in brown sugar

Abstract

A rapid and sensitive approach for enriching and extracting triazines from brown sugar samples was developed by combining magnetic dispersive solid-phase extraction and HPLC/UV. In this work, a magnetic porous biochar (MPB) derived from low-cost bagasse was prepared and successfully employed as an adsorbent. A particular emphasis was placed on optimizing the extraction conditions, including the amount of MPB, extraction time, pH, type and volume of eluent, and salt concentration. Under optimized MSPE conditions, the method showed satisfactory linearity over concentration ranges of 2–200 μg L⁻¹ for four triazines, with correlation coefficient values no less than 0.9981. Low limits of detection (0.27–0.33 μg L⁻¹), good recoveries (81.7–100.7%), and satisfactory repeatability (RSDs ≤ 8.1%) were also demonstrated with respect to the analytical performance. The results demonstrated that the developed method was simple, rapid, sensitive, and efficient, indicating that it could extract and enrich trace triazines from real samples.