Field screening of polycyclic hydrocarbons contamination in soil using a portable synchronous scanning spectrofluorometer
- Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
- International Waste Management Systems, Knoxville, TN (United States)
- Environmental Systems Corp., Knoxville, TN (United States)
- Environmental Protection Agency, Las Vegas, NV (United States). National Exposure Research Lab.
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) contaminating is a considerable problem at various hazardous waste sites. The development of rapid, cost-effective field screening techniques to qualitate or quantitate potential PAH contamination could result in improved remediation efficiency. The authors have recently developed a portable spectrofluorometer (2) for screening potential PAH contaminants at field sites using the synchronous fluorescence approach. In this paper, the portable spectrofluorometer was used to field screen several contaminated soil areas located at the Morristown Industrial Site in Morristown, Tennessee using the synchronous fluorescence technique. An attempt to quantify PAH contamination was performed using the NIST 1647a Priority pollutant standard to generate a calibration curve. Representative samples were subsequently related to the results obtained from standard laboratory measurements.
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-84OR21400
- OSTI ID:
- 153420
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9506232-; ISBN 0-8194-1862-5; TRN: IM9602%%250
- 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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