Volatile organic compounds analysis

Pleil JD, Lindstrom AB. 1995. Collection of a single alveolar exhaled breath for volatile organic compounds analysis. Am J Ind Med 28(1) 109-121. 

St-Germain F, Mamer O, Brunet J, et al. 1995. Volatile organic compound analysis by an inertial spray extraction interface coupled to an ion trap mass spctrometer. Anal Chem 67 4536-4541. 

Pleil, J. D and A. B. Lindstrom, Collection of a Single Alveolar Exhaled Breath for Volatile Organic Compounds Analysis, Am. J. Indust. Med., 28, 109-121 (1995). 

Microbial Volatile Organic Compounds as Indicators for Hidden Mold Growth, Selection of Microbial Volatile Organic Compounds, Analysis, Evaluation... 

Dolch ME, Homuss C, Klocke C, et al. Volatile organic compound analysis by ion-molecule reaction mass spectrometry for Gram-positive bacteria differentiation. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2012 31 3007-13. 

Morris, L., Caruana, D.J., and Williams, D.E. Simple system for part-per-billion-level volatile organic compound analysis in grounwater and urban air. Meas. Sci. Technol. 2002,13, 603-612. 

Queralto, N., Berliner, A.N., Goldsmith, B., Martino, R., Rhodes, P., Lim, S.H., 2014. Detecting cancer by breath volatile organic compound analysis a review of array-based sensors. J. Breath Res. 8, 1—13. Radhakrishnan, J., Wang, S., Ayoub, I.M., Kolarova, J.D., Levine, R.F., Gazmuri, R.J., 2007. Am. J. Physiol. Heart Circ. Physiol. 292, H767-H775. 

Method 25 applies to the measurement of volatile organic compounds (VOC) as nonmethane organics (TGNMO), reported as carbon. Organic particulate matter will interfere with the analysis, and, therefore, in some cases, an in-stack particulate filter will be required. The method requires an emission sample to be withdrawn at a con-... 

At the Taylor Road landfill (originally intended for the disposal of municipal refuse only), unknown quantities of hazardous wastes from industrial and residential sources were deposited. During the period when the landfill was active, soil and groundwater samples collected at the site were found to contain concentrations of volatile organic compounds and metals above acceptable safe drinking water standards. Analysis of samples collected from private drinking water wells indicated that contamination... 

MDGC has also been used in the air analysis field. For instance, it has been applied to the analysis of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in air, thus enabling a wider range of these compounds to be analysed (18). 

Nilsson, T, Ferrari, R., and Facchetti, S., Interlaboratory Studies for the Validation of Solid-phase Mieroextraction for the Quantitative Analysis of Volatile Organic Compounds in Aqueous Samples, Anu/yrica Chimica Acta 356, 1997, 113-123. 

Headspace analysis has also been used to determine trichloroethylene in water samples. High accuracy and excellent precision were reported when GC/ECD was used to analyze headspace gases over water (Dietz and Singley 1979). Direct injection of water into a portable GC suitable for field use employed an ultraviolet detector (Motwani et al. 1986). While detection was comparable to the more common methods (low ppb), recovery was very low. Solid waste leachates from sanitary landfills have been analyzed for trichloroethylene and other volatile organic compounds (Schultz and Kjeldsen 1986). Detection limits for the procedure, which involves extraction with pentane followed by GC/MS analysis, are in the low-ppb and low-ppm ranges for concentrated and unconcentrated samples, respectively. Accuracy and precision data were not reported. 

The Environmental Health Laboratory Sciences Division of the National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is developing methods for the analysis of trichloroethylene and other volatile organic compounds in blood. These methods use purge and trap methodology, high resolution... 

Pavlostathis SG, Mathavan GN. 1992. Application of headspace analysis for the determination of volatile organic compounds in contaminated soils. Environ Technol 13 23-33. 

Holt BD, NC Sturchio, TA Abrajano, LJ Heraty (1997) Conversion of chlorinated volatile organic compounds to carbon dioxide and methyl chloride for isotopic analysis of carbon and chlorine. Anal Chem 69 2727-2733. 

Bentivenga, G., D Auria, M., Fedeli, P., MaurieUo, G., and Racioppi, R. (2004). SPME-GC-MS analysis of volatile organic compounds in honey from Basilicata. Evidence or the presence of pollutants from anthropogenic activities. Int. J. Food Sci. Technol. 39,1079-1086. 

Kasthurikrishnan et al. [243] used membrane mass spectrometry to study the analysis of volatile organic compounds in seawater at ppt concentrations. 

Limited data is available on the concentration of volatile organic compounds, semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs), and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from gasification processes. The data that is available indicate that VOCs, SVOCs, and PAHs are either non-detectable in flue gas streams from IGCC process or, in some cases where they were detected, they are at extremely low levels (on the order of parts per billion and lower). The analysis of syngas also indicates greater than 99.99 percent chlorobenzene and hexachlo-robenzene destruction and removal efficiencies and part per billion or less concentration of selected PAHs and VOCs.9-14... 

Blood samples for analysis of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) including hexachloroethane should be collected into containers from which VOC contamination has been reduced (Ashley et al. 1992). Potassium oxalate/sodium fluoride is the recommended anti-coagulant. Blood samples should be placed on ice or refrigerated shortly after collection, and Ashley et al. (1992) recommend that analysis for VOCs be completed within 14 days. 

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