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Monitoring of air pollutants : sampling, sample preparation and analytical techniques /
Monitoring of Air Pollutants: Sampling, Sample Preparation and Analytical Techniques provides a comprehensive reference on air pollutant monitoring, addressing experimental approaches to sampling and sample preparation, as well as analytical technologies (instrumental methods) which are applicable t...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam, Netherlands :
Elsevier,
2015.
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| Series: | Comprehensive analytical chemistry ;
v. 70. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; Advisory Board; Monitoring of Air Pollutants: Sampling, Sample Preparation and Analytical Techniques; Copyright; Contents; Contributors to Volume 70; Series Editor's Preface; Preface; I
- Introduction; 1
- Perspectives on the Monitoring of Air Pollutants; 1. BACKGROUND TO AIR POLLUTION; 2. POTENTIAL EFFECTS OF AIR POLLUTION; 3. THE IMPORTANCE OF QUALITY CONTROL IN ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSES; 4. STATISTICAL TOOLS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; 5. THE SCOPE OF THE BOOK; REFERENCES; II
- Sampling Air Pollutants with Associated Sample Preparation Techniques.
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- Passive Diffusion Sampling Devices for Monitoring Ambient Air Concentrations1. INTRODUCTION; 2. BASIC PRINCIPLES; 2.1 Types of Passive Sampling Devices; 2.1.1 Samplers for Inorganic Gases; 2.1.2 Samplers for Organic Gases; 2.2 Governing Equations; 3. PASSIVE SAMPLER NETWORK DESIGN; 3.1 Selection and Quantity of Sampling Locations; 3.2 Sampling Frequency and Duration; 3.3 Field Siting Criteria; 3.4 Collocation with Reference Measurements; 4. METHODOLOGY; 4.1 Network Operations; 4.2 Laboratory Methods for Sampling of Inorganic Gases; 4.2.1 Sampler Preparation.
- 4.2.2 Sampler Extraction and Analytical Preparation4.2.3 Sample Analysis; 4.2.4 Precautions and Known Interferences; 4.3 Laboratory Methods for Sampling of Organic Gases; 4.3.1 Sampler Preparation; 4.3.2 Sampler Deployment; 4.3.3 Sampler Desorption and Analysis; 4.3.4 Precautions and Known Interferences; 5. QUALITY ASSURANCE AND QUALITY CONTROL; 5.1 Laboratory QA and QC; 5.2 Field QA and QC; 5.3 Comparison with Reference Methods; 5.4 Data Validation and Reporting; 6. CASE STUDIES; 6.1 Mapping Regional Pollutant Concentrations; 6.1.1 Determining Exceedance of Critical Loads in South Africa.
- 6.1.2 The DEBITS Network6.2 Determining Long-Term Ammonia Trends: The NADP/AMoN; 7. CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; 3
- Biomonitors; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. LICHENS; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Lichens as Biomonitors of Inorganic Air Pollutants; 2.3 Lichens as Biomonitors of Organic Air Pollutants; 3. MOSSES; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Mosses as Biomonitors of Air Pollutants; 4. CONIFER NEEDLES; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Conifer Needles as Biomonitors of Organic Air Pollutants; 4.3 Conifer Needles as Biomonitors of Inorganic Air Pollutants; 5. TREE BARK; 5.1 Introduction.
- 5.2 Tree Bark as a Biomonitor of Air Pollutants6. OTHER PLANTS; 7. SAMPLING CONSIDERATIONS; 7.1 Sampling of Biomonitors for Organic Analytes; 7.2 Sampling of Biomonitors for Inorganic Analytes; 8. ANALYTE EXTRACTION METHODS; 8.1 Soxhlet Extraction; 8.2 Microwave-Assisted Extraction; 8.2.1 Extraction of Organic Analytes; 8.2.2 Extraction of Inorganic Analytes; 8.3 Ultrasound-Assisted Solvent Extraction; 8.3.1 Introduction; 8.3.2 Extraction of Inorganic Analytes; 8.3.3 Extraction of Organic Analytes; 8.4 QuEChERS; 8.4.1 Introduction; 8.5 Sample Cleanup; 9. ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES.