Determination of selected principal organic hazardous constituents from incinerators using capillary column GC/MS

Abstract

Abstract Laboratory and field experiments were conducted to evaluate the use of conventional capillary column GC/MS in the analysis of Volatile Organic Sampling Train (VOST) samples. The recovery of analytes and surrogates from replicate analysis was over 80% and the relative standard deviation less than 20 %. Field evaluations showed that the overall precision was less than 16% RSD; the recovery of surrogates was well within the system performance established by the EPA for a trial burn test of + 50% accuracy and 20% RSD precision.