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Use of two SPE-GC/MS methods for field isolation and quantitation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

Conference ·
OSTI ID:210601
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  1. Geological Survey, Arvada, CO (United States)
Increasing sensitivity and subsequently improving method-detection limits for a variety of organic contaminant compounds is an ongoing effort in environmental analytical chemistry. Several field-deployable isolation techniques have been developed for concentrating hydrophobic organic contaminants from large (> 1 liter) volumes of aqueous samples. The capacity of large-volume solid-phase extraction (LV-SPE) was used as part of a simple, efficient, field-operable technique for isolating microgram-per-liter to nanogram-per-liter quantities of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in 4- to 8-liter ground-water samples from a petroleum- contaminated aquifer near Bemidji, Minn.
OSTI ID:
210601
Report Number(s):
CONF-9505261--
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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