Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons Criteria Working Group

Weisman, W. (Ed.). 1998. Analysis of Petroleum Hydrocarbons, Environmental Media Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon Criteria Working Group Series. Amherst Scientific Publishers, Amherst, MA. 

Weisman, W. 1998. Analysis of Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Environmental Media. Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons Criteria Working Group Series, Vol. 1. Amherst Scientific Publishers, Amherst, MA.(See also Vol. 2, Composition of Petroleum Mixtures, 1998 Vol. 3, Selection of Representation Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons Fractions Based on Fate and Transport Considerations, 1997 Vol. 4, Development of Fraction-Specific Reference Doses and Reference Concentrations for Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons, 1997 and Vol. 5, Human Health Risk-Based Evaluation of Petroleum Contaminated Sites, Implementation of the Working Group Approach, 1999.)... 

Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon Criteria Working Group (TPHCWG) (1997a) Composition of Petroleum Mixtures, vol. 2. Amherst, MA Amherst Scientific Publishers. 

The number of individual identified hydrocarbon components of the various petroleum products has been estimated at several hundred to over a thousand. Toxicity data are available for about 95 of these, but only about 25 were considered to have sufficient data to develop toxicity criteria according to the Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon Criteria Working Group (TPHCWG 1997b). ATSDR has derived MRLs for 12 of these compounds (anthracene, benzene, ethylbenzene, fluoranthene, fluorene,... 

EA Engineering. 1995. Selection of surrogate fractions based on fate and transport considerations. Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon Criteria Working Group Project 3. Prepared for U.S. Air Force, Armstrong Laboratory... 

TPHCWG. 1997a. A risk-based approach for the management of total petroleum hydrocarbons in soil. Total petroleum hydrocarbon criteria working group. March 1997. http //www.aehs.com. 

TPHCWG. 1997b. Total petroleum hydrocarbon criteria working group series, volume 3. Selection of representative TPH factions based on fate and transport considerations. Gustafson J, Tell JG, Orem D, eds. Amherst, MA Amherst Scientific Publishers. 

TPHCWG. 1998b. Total petroleum hydrocarbon criteria working group series, volume 2. 

Source Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons Criteria Working Group. 1997. Selection of Representative TPH Fractions Based on Fate and Transport Considerations, vol. 3. 

Source Table taken from EA Engineering 1995, Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon Criteria, Working Group Project 3, Based on Fate and Transport Considerations, Prepared for Armstrong Laboratory, Brooks Air Force Base, Occupational Medicine, Brooks Air Force Base, Texas, Prepared by EA Engineering, Science, and Technology, Lafayette, California. 

Petroleum hydrocarbons are a mixture of many substances. The results of petroleum analysis depend as much on the analytical method as the petroleum. As long as everyone works to a common definition there is no problem. The Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon Criteria Working Group (TPHCWG) convened in 1993 to develop scientifically defensible information for establishing soil cleanup levels that are protective of human health at petroleum contaminated sites. The TPHCWG compiled their data and analytical efforts into five volumes that can be accessed at http //www.aehs.com/publications/catalog/ contents/tph.htm ... 

Pollard SJT, Hmdey SE, Eredorak PM. (1994). Bioremediation of petroleum and creosote-contaminated soils A review of constraints. Waste Management Research 12 173-194. Potter TL, Simmons KE. (1998). Composition of petroleum mixtures. In Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon Criteria Working Group Series, Vol. 2. Amherst, MA Scientific Pnbhshers Amherst. 

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