Field Measurement of Volatile Organic Compounds by Ion Trap Mass Spectrometry.

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• Personal Author:
  Alarid JE ; Cisper ME ; Hemberger PH ; Vanderveer EP
• Description:
  A modular field deployable gas chromatograph/ion trap detector system for characterization of hazardous waste sites was described. The second generation transportable gas chromatograph/ion trap detector (GC/ITD) was extensively based on commercial instrumentation. A purge and trap gas chromatograph was used for sampling and separating volatile organic compounds from the environmental matrix before their introduction to the ion trap detector for mass spectral analysis. The ion trap detector provided many advantages as a mass analyzer in this application. The high sensitivity of the ion trap and the inherent universality of the modular mass spectrometer system were important features for field analysis. The instrument provided high specificity for compound identification due to the two dimensional information provided by chromatographic retention time and mass spectral library identification.
• Subjects:
  Accidents, Occupational Occupational Health Safety Safety Management Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Agricultural-chemicals Chemical-analysis Chromatographic-analysis Environmental-pollution; Hazardous-materials Soil-analysis Spectrographic-analysis Water-analysis
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Conference/Symposia Proceedings
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  351-365
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00210427
• Citation:
  NIOSH 1991 Feb:351-365
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1991
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c35796dd29210482cd8436b11260b73d506f56dd4733b781404b9b1ea3558b95e400a18155ce37662bb7b6f5e4f9d74fe479051fc340999f952f13dc14a28368
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/180794/cdc_180794_DS1.pdf
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