| Title: | Development of a new needle trap-based method for the determination of some volatile organic compounds in the indoor environment |
| Author(s): | Baysal E; Uzun UC; Ertas FN; Goksel O; Pelit L; |
| Address: | "Ege University Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey. Ege University Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey; EgeSAM-Ege University Translational Pulmonary Research Center, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey. Ege University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Division of Immunology, Allergy and Asthma, Laboratory of Occupational and Environmental Respiratory Diseases, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey; EgeSAM-Ege University Translational Pulmonary Research Center, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey. Ege University Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey; EgeSAM-Ege University Translational Pulmonary Research Center, Bornova, Izmir, Turkey. Electronic address: levent.pelit@ege.edu.tr" |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.130251 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1879-1298 (Electronic) 0045-6535 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) are a large group of chemicals mostly found in indoor environments such as homes and workplaces. Long term exposure to certain VOCs can cause symptoms in some individuals and therefore, monitoring and controlling air quality can help better manage chronic respiratory diseases. In this study, we aimed to develop an easy-to-use, economical, in house needle trap-based methodology to detect certain VOCs to be used for public and occupational health. For this purpose, a multi-bed (packed with PDMS/Carbopack-X/Carboxen-1000) needle trap device (NTD) was utilized for sampling, enrichment, and injection of the VOCs into the gas chromatography. The performance of the developed method was investigated for the analysis of the group known as BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene). Operational and instrumental parameters such as sampling flow rate and relative humidity, desorption time and temperature were optimized, and the analytical figures of merit of the proposed method have indicated that very low levels of BTEX in air samples can be easily determined by this new method. Overall results have shown that multi-bed NTD offers a high sensitive procedure for sampling and analysis of BTEX in concentration range of 0.002-0.298 mg/m(3) in indoor air" |
| Keywords: | *Air Pollutants/analysis Benzene/analysis Environmental Monitoring Humans Toluene/analysis *Volatile Organic Compounds/analysis Xylenes/analysis Btex Indoor air analysis Needle trap device Volatile organic compounds; |
| Notes: | "MedlineBaysal, Ertan Uzun, Umut Can Ertas, Fatma Nil Goksel, Ozlem Pelit, Levent eng England 2021/03/29 Chemosphere. 2021 Aug; 277:130251. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2021.130251. Epub 2021 Mar 19" |
