A quantitative method to detect explosives and selected semivolatiles in soil samples by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy

Technical Report · Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1995

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/82416· OSTI ID:82416

Clapper-Gowdy, M; Dermirgian, J ^[1]; Robitaille, G ^[2]

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1. Argonne National Lab., IL (United States)
2. Army Environmental Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD (United States)

This paper describes a novel Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopic method that can be used to rapidly screen soil samples from potentially hazardous waste sites. Samples are heated in a thermal desorption unit and the resultant vapors are collected and analyzed in a long-path gas cell mounted in a FTIR. Laboratory analysis of a soil sample by FTIR takes approximately 10 minutes. This method has been developed to identify and quantify microgram concentrations of explosives in soil samples and is directly applicable to the detection of selected volatile organics, semivolatile organics, and pesticides.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States); Department of Defense, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 82416
• Report Number(s): ANL/CMT/PP-80445; ON: DE95013551; TRN: 95:017213
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: [1995]
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
40 CHEMISTRY
SOILS
ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY
TNT
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
CHEMICAL EXPLOSIVES
SAMPLE PREPARATION