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J Chromatogr A

Title:		Measurement of volatile organic compounds by the US Environmental Protection Agency Compendium Method TO-17. Evaluation of performance criteria
Author(s):		McClenny WA; Colon M;
Address:		"US Environmental Protection Agency, National Exposure Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USA"
Journal Title:		J Chromatogr A
Year:		1998
Volume:		813
Issue:		1
Page Number:		101 - 111
DOI:		10.1016/s0021-9673(98)00327-6
ISSN/ISBN:		0021-9673 (Print) 0021-9673 (Linking)
Abstract:		"An evaluation of performance criteria for US Environmental Protection Agency Compendium Method TO-17 for monitoring volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in air has been accomplished. The method is a solid adsorbent-based sampling and analytical procedure including performance criteria for four merit parameters. These are: (1) the method detection limit (MDL); (2) the method precision; (3) the agreement between two samples taken at different flow-rates over the same time period [a distributed volume pair (DVP)]; and (4) audit accuracy. A two-adsorbent tube packing of Carbotrap and Carboxen 1000 (Supelco) was tested. Synthetic mixtures containing 41 compounds at concentrations of 10 ppb (v/v) or 2 ppb (v/v) each in humidified zero air, and indoor air from a personal residence, were sampled for 1-h periods during which 1-l and 4-l samples were obtained simultaneously. For synthetic samples, the MDL was determined to be < or = 0.5 ppb (v/v) for 29 of the 41 compounds examined for samples at 47% relative humidity (RH), and for 27 of 41 compounds at 85% RH. The method precision at both 2 and 10 ppb (v/v) was < or = 20% for 90+ % of the samples using five sampling runs and the DVP samples were within 25% for 80% of the samples. For the indoor samples, 26 target compounds were tentatively identified and 12 unknowns were detected; all but 10% of these compounds met the DVP criteria"
Keywords:		"Air Pollutants, Occupational/*analysis Air Pollution, Indoor/analysis Chromatography, Gas Hydrocarbons/*analysis Reference Standards Reproducibility of Results Solvents United States United States Environmental Protection Agency;"
Notes:		"MedlineMcClenny, W A Colon, M eng Netherlands 1998/08/11 J Chromatogr A. 1998 Jul 10; 813(1):101-11. doi: 10.1016/s0021-9673(98)00327-6"