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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
9
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-2-25
pubmed:abstractText
New drinking water regulations require the monitoring of eight volatile organic compounds that have established maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) and 51 other volatile organics for which MCLs are not established. A laboratory analytical method (Method 524.2) for the determination of 58 of these compounds is investigated, and precision and accuracy data are obtained. The method uses a standard inert gas purge extraction, isolation of the volatile organics on a three-stage solid-phase trap, thermal desorption into a gas chromatograph, separation with a fused-silica capillary column, and identification and measurement with a relatively low cost, benchtop ion trap detector that functions as a mass spectrometer. At a concentration of 2 micrograms/L (2 parts per billion), the grand mean measurement accuracy for 54 compounds was 95% of the true value with a mean relative standard deviation (RSD) of 4%. At 0.2 micrograms/L (200 parts per trillion), the grand mean measurement accuracy for 52 compounds was 95% of the true value with a mean RSD of 3%.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0021-9665
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
28
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
460-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
Determination of volatile organics in drinking water with USEPA method 524.2 and the ion trap detector.
pubmed:affiliation
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Cincinnati, Ohio 45268.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article