Monday, August 9th, 2010
by Alyson Fortune and Nicole Pannone
Ambient air monitoring is a priority in the ongoing efforts to contain and manage the oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico.
The following provides information about the kinds of airborne contaminants that are currently being monitored in the Gulf, how they are collected and how they are analyzed. For a given project, a suitable sampling plan – developed by environmental or industrial hygiene professionals – will determine which methods are most applicable to the project objectives.
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Tags: Air Phase Petroleum Hydrocarbons, Air Pollutants, Air Quality Testing, Air Testing, Ambient Air, APH, ASTM, crude oil, deepwater horizon, environmental protection, EPA Method TO-17, GC/MS, grab, gulf, gulf of mexico, gulf oil spill, gulf spill, H2S, hydrogen sulfide, MassDEP, minicans, oil spill, PAHs, Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, ppbV, Reduced Sulfur Compounds, Sample Collection, semi-volatile, Summa Canister, SUMMA canisters, SVOCs, TO-13A, TO-15, TO-17, VOCs, Volatile Organic Compounds
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Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
The recent explosion of a drilling rig 50 miles off the Louisiana coast and the subsequent massive oil leak is expected to have substantial effects on the environment. At the current rate, the spill is expected to surpass the 11 million gallons spilled in the Exxon Valdez disaster. Various investigations, monitoring activities, damage assessments, and other related studies will be occurring for many years as a result of this event. From an analytical chemistry standpoint, several relatively specialized procedures will be required to assure that contaminants detected originated from this spill. In addition, a certain amount of standardization between all laboratories performing testing will be necessary to assure comparable data.
The key procedures that will be used for much of the testing are briefly described in the following:
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Tags: alkane markers, Alkylated, analytical chemistry, cleanup, diesel, Dispersants, forensic, GC/FID, gulf, gulf oil spill, laboratory testing, LC/MS/MS, Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectroscopy/Mass Spectrosco, oil, oil leak, oil spill, PAH, petroleum, Petroleum Hydrocarbons, PHC, Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, speciated hydrocarbon, VOC, VOCs, Volatile Organic Compounds
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