A new technique called constant energy synchronous fluorescence (CESF) was introduced for the simultaneous detection of 16 different polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).
By adjusting the constant energy intervals during scanning, researchers successfully identified and quantified 13 PAHs, achieving detection limits between 0.2 and 7.6 ng/ml.
When applied to real soil samples, the CESF method identified 11 PAHs, showing an overall concentration of 5.1 µg/g, and recovery rates ranged from 70.9% to 121.4%, indicating its effectiveness for analyzing complex mixtures of PAHs in environmental samples.