Affiliation:
1. U.O.C. Laboratorio Regionale Area Ovest, Settore Laboratori, ARPA Lombardia, Via Juvara 22, 20129 Milano, Italy
2. Settore Laboratori, ARPA Lombardia, Via Rosellini 17, 20124 Milano, Italy
Abstract
In the field of contaminated site remediation, risk analyses can be carried out by the use of appropriate mathematical models, based on simplified hypotheses of real sites. The possibility to have shared and accurate analytical methods is an important challenge for both routine laboratories and supervisory institutions. Although official methods (e.g., APH2009) are already available, they are lacking in some aspects, such as applicability to all the different sampling and analysis media and ease of use in routine analysis. Here, we report our recent advances in the implementation of an empirical method for hydrocarbon speciation in an air matrix, previously developed by the authors and published in 2015. The validation results led to a coefficient of variation (CV%) between 10–15% for the hydrocarbon fractions investigated (C5-C8 aliphatic, C9-C12 aliphatic, C9-C10 aromatic and C11-C12 aromatic) and recovery of ≤20%, in agreement with the required characteristics for the analytical methods. Several real samples were analyzed by the proposed method and the results were compared to those obtained by the official approach. The comparison led to an average bias (that is, the difference between the results from the developed method and those from the conventional one) of about 10%, confirming that the innovative approach is robust, accurate and can be applied to all the analytical media used for air sampling, such as soil gas.
Subject
Filtration and Separation,Analytical Chemistry
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