The invention relates to construction of a portable purging and
trapping sampling device of volatile
formaldehyde, and a method for rapidly detecting volatile
formaldehyde by surface enhanced
Raman scattering (SERS) and application of the method. The portable purging and
trapping sampling device of volatile
formaldehyde comprises a gas path purging
system and a sampling
system. The volatile formaldehyde in an actual sample reacts with a
derivatization reagent after being purged by high-purity
nitrogen, an enhanced particle is added to a reactant and then the detection is carried out through a Raman
spectrometer. The formaldehyde reacts with a
phenol reagent under the action of
ammonium ferric sulfate under the acidic condition to generate a blue-green compound, and an SERS
signal of the blue-green compound is enhanced and is superior to that of the formaldehyde, so that the formaldehyde is subjected to indirect qualitation and quantitation through determining the blue-green compound. The portable purging and
trapping sampling device adopts Au / SiO2 as an SERS base material, is suitable for determination of the volatile formaldehyde in complex samples such as aquatic products, foods and environment, and has the advantages of simpleness, rapidness,
high selectivity, and the like, and is suitable for
field detection.