Analysis of organic compounds in aqueous samples of former ammunition plants
- Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Aerosol Research, Hannover (Germany)
In Germany, a large number of sites exist where ammunition was produced before and in particular during World War II. These former production sites represent a particular threat to the environment because these plants were constructed and operated under war conditions, where production was far more important than protection of the health of the (in general forced) workers and the environment. New approaches are presented for the extraction and analysis of explosives and related compounds in aqueous samples from former ammunition production sites. Quantitative extraction of nitro aromatics but also of the polar nitroamines such as RDX and HMX is achieved by solid phase extraction with styrene-divinylbenzene polymers (Lichrolut EN). Proton nuclear magnetic resonance ({sup 1}H-NMR) has been used to identify and quantify unknowns in ammunition waste water. Finally, automated multiple development (AMD) high performance thin layer chromatography was applied for the first time to the analysis of this compound class.
- OSTI ID:
- 153295
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9506232-; ISBN 0-8194-1862-5; TRN: IM9602%%231
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) conference, Munich (Germany), 19-23 Jun 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of Environmental monitoring and hazardous waste site remediation; Vo-Dinh, T. [ed.] [Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)]; Niessner, R. [ed.] [Technische Univ. Muenchen (Germany)]; PB: 613 p.; SPIE Proceedings Volume 2504
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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