Emeritus Professor Kipton J Powell
Position
Emeritus Professor
Field of Study
Analytical Chemistry
Environmental Chemistry
Solution Chemistry
Qualifications
MSc(Hons), PhD, DSc(Well), PhD(hon)(Umeå)
Contact Details
Email: kip.powell@canterbury.ac.nz
Current research and professional activities
- trace element analysis
- speciation modelling
- solution equilibrium measurements
- fractionation of, and metal binding by soil and aquatic humic substances.
- FIA, ETAAS, DGT, voltammetry
- kinetic methods for speciation
- co-compiler of IUPAC stability constant databases (SC-Database and Mini-SCdatabase): www.acadsoft.co.uk
- Past-President, IUPAC Analytical Chemistry Division
- Principal writer for the SolEq project: Computer-interactive tutorials on solution equilibria: www.acadsoft.co.uk
Representative Papers
Effects of grassland afforestation on soil solution and exchangeable soil aluminium. Adams, M.L., Davis, M., and Powell, K.J. Australian J. Soil Research 2001, 39: 1003-1014.
An FIA method for iron fractionation by reaction with oxine-derivatised Fractogel. Adams, M.L., and Powell, K.J. Analytica Chimica Acta 2001, 433: 289-297.
Stability constants for aluminium(III) complexes weith the 1,2-dihydroxyaryl ligands caffeic acid, chlorogenic acid, DHB and DASA in aqueous solution. Adams, M.L., O'Sullivan, B., Downard, A.J. and Powell, K.J. J. Chem. Eng. Data 2002, 47: 289-296.
Downard, A.J., Panther, J., Kim, Y-C., Powell, K.J. Lability of metal ion-fulvic acid complexes as probed by FIA and DGT: a comparative study. Anal. Chim. Acta 2003, 499, 17-28.
Powell, K.J, Brown, P.L., Byrne, R.H., Gajda, T., Hefter, G., Sjoberg, S., Wanner, H. Chemical speciation of environmentally significant heavy metals with inorganic ligands. Part 1: Mercury. Pure Appl. Chem. 2004, 77, 739-800
Powell, K.J, Brown, P.L., Byrne, R.H., Gajda, T., Hefter, G., Sjoberg, S., Wanner, H. Chemical speciation of Hg(II) with environmental inorganic ligands. Australian J Chem. , 2004, 57, 993-1000.
Oman, S.F, Camões, M.F, Powell, K.J, Rajagopalan, R, Spitzer, P. Guidelines for potentiometric measurements in suspensions. Part A. The suspension effect. Pure Appl. Chem . 2007, 79, 67-79.
Oman , S.F, Camões, M.F, Powell, K.J, Rajagopalan, R, Spitzer, P. Guidelines for potentiometric measurements in suspensions. Part B. Guidelines for Practical pH measurements in soil suspensions. Pure Appl. Chem . 2007, 79, 81-86
Chemical speciation of environmentally significant metals with inorganic ligands. Part 3: The Pb2+ + OH–, Cl–, CO32–, SO42–, and PO43– systems. Kipton J. Powell, Paul L. Brown, Robert H. Byrne, Tamas Gajda, Glenn Hefter, Ann-Kathrin Leuz, Staffan Sjöberg and Hans Wanner. Pure Appl. Chem., 2009, Vol. 81, No. 12, pp. 2425-2476