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In the multi-factor experiment, the central composite design (CCD) was used to determine the optimum technological conditions. The final optimal conditions were as follows: the concentration of UCON was 0.45 g\u00b7mL\u22121, the concentration of NaH2PO4 was 3.5 mol\u00b7L\u22121, and the temperature was 30 \u00b0C. The recovery of the four targets was 98.91\u201399.84% with a relative standard deviation of 0.3\u20132.1%. Then UCON recycling and cyclic tests were designed in the experiment, and the results showed that the recovery of PAHs gradually increased in the three extractions because of the remaining PAHs in the salt phase of last extraction. The recovery of PAHs in the UCON recycling test was less than that in the extraction test due to the wastage of UCON. In addition, a two-phase aqueous extraction model was established based on the random forest (RF) model. The results obtained were compared with the experimental data, and the root mean square error (RMSE) was 0.0371\u20130.0514 and the correlation coefficient R2 was 96.20\u201398.53%, proving that the model is robust and reliable.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/molecules27196465","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,10,9]],"date-time":"2022-10-09T04:00:02Z","timestamp":1665288002000},"page":"6465","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Simultaneous Prediction, Determination, and Extraction of Four Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in the Environment Using a UCON\u2013NaH2PO4 Aqueous Two-Phase Extraction System Combined with High-Performance Liquid Chromatography-Ultraviolet Detection"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"27","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1748-4078","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"He","family":"Chang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Preparation and Application of Environmental Friendly Materials, Jilin Normal University, Siping 136000, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5782-5375","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yang","family":"Lu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Key Laboratory of Preparation and Application of Environmental Friendly Materials, Jilin Normal University, Siping 136000, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yantao","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Chemistry, Jilin Normal University, 1301 Haifeng Street, Siping 136000, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,9,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"387","DOI":"10.20937\/RICA.2019.35.02.10","article-title":"Mtodo optimizado para la determinacin de hidrocarburos aromticos policclicos asociados a partculas atmosfricas","volume":"35","author":"Tames","year":"2019","journal-title":"Rev. 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