2nd Edition

Analytical Chemistry of PCBs

By Mitchell D. Erickson Copyright 1997

    This updated and expanded Second Edition of Dr. Erickson's Analytical Chemistry of PCBs appears a decade after the first and is completely revised and updated. The changes from the First Edition reflect the significant growth in the area and a growing appreciation of the importance of PCB analysis to our culture. This book is a comprehensive review of the analytical chemistry of PCBs. It is part history, part annotated bibliography, part comparison, and part guidance. Featuring a new chapter on analyst/customer interactions and several new appendices, the Second Edition is an invaluable resource for both chemists with no experience in PCB analysis and seasoned PCB researchers.
    All topics have been more thoroughly treated and updated in this new edition to reflect advances made in the last decade, especially:

    Introduction
    Overview of PCB Properties, Uses, and Occurrence
    Regulatory History
    Analytical Chemistry of PCBs
    Physical, Chemical, Commercial, Environmental, and Biological Properties
    Introduction
    PCB Nomenclature
    Physical Properties
    Synthesis and Standards
    Production and Use
    Environmental Occurrence
    Environmental Transport and Fate
    Destruction, Degradation, and Metabolism
    Toxicology
    Occupational Exposure and Its Effects
    Analytical Procedures
    U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Procedures
    ANSI and ASTM Procedures
    Procedures for Food and Fish
    Procedures for Byproduct Analysis
    Future Needs
    Sample Collection and Storage
    Sampling Design
    Water
    Air
    Natural Gas in Pipelines
    Soils and Sediments
    Other Solids
    Surfaces
    Oil, Dielectric Fluids, Etc.
    Biological Samples
    Extraction
    General Considerations
    Water
    Sewage and Sludge
    Sediment and Soil
    Air
    Blood
    Animal and Plant Tissues
    Paper Products
    Oils
    Wipes and Other Bulk Samples
    Ancillary Considerations
    Cleanup
    Adsorbent Column Chromatography
    High Performance Liquid Chromatography
    Thin-Layer Chromatography
    Adsorbent Slurry Techniques
    Gel Permeation Chromatography
    Liquid-Liquid Partitioning
    Chemical Degradation
    Cleanup and Oil Samples
    Sulfur Removal
    Comparison of Cleanup Techniques
    Criteria for Choice of a Cleanup Technique
    Validation of Cleanup Techniques
    Future Needs
    Determination
    Criteria for Choice of Techniques
    Gas Chromatography
    Thin-Layer Chromatography
    High Performance Liquid Chromatography
    Supercritical Fluid Chromatography
    Nonchromatographic Methods
    Confirmation
    Field Analyses
    Screening
    Summary
    Data Reduction
    Qualitative
    Quantitative
    Data Reporting
    Potential Improvements in Data Reduction
    Quality Assurance
    General Considerations
    Special Considerations in PCB Analyses
    Previous QC Measures
    Recommended QA/QC Measures
    Potential Improvements in QA
    Collaborative Studies
    Wildlife
    Chicken Fat and Fish
    Paperboard
    Marine Sediments
    Quantitation Techniques and Milk
    Paper Mill Effluent
    Ambient Air
    Wet Lake Sediment
    Naturally Contaminated Dry Sediments
    Dry Pigments
    Insulating Oils
    Byproducts from Industrial Processes
    Bovine Serum
    Byproducts in a Chlorinated Aromatic Waste
    Herring
    Lubricating Oils
    Municipal and Industrial Wastewater
    PCBs in Oil
    PCBs in Mineral Oil by ASTM D 4059
    Eel Fat Extracts
    Transformer Oils
    Homologs in Water, Soil, and Sediment by GC/MS
    Oil
    Soxtec Extraction of Soils
    Congeners in Solution
    Aroclor 1260 in Soil
    Preparation of Calibration Solutions
    Pipeline Condensates
    Specific Congeners in Milk
    Non- and Mono-Ortho-Substituted Congeners in Herring Oil
    GC/Ion Trap MS Evaluation
    Procurement and Execution of PCB Analyses
    Responsibilities of the Requester
    Responsibilities of the Analyst
    Procurement of PCB Analyses
    Bibliography
    Appendices
    Nomenclature of PCBs
    Composition of Some Commercial PCB Mixtures
    Mass Spectral Characteristics of PCBs
    GC/ECD Chromatograms of Aroclor Mixtures
    PCB Information Package from EPA TSCA Assistance Information Service
    Materials Safety Data Sheet for PCBs, Monsanto Company
    Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) Database
    Terms and Abbreviations
    Index

    Biography

    Erickson, Mitchell D.

    "...contains an enormous wealth of information and is an extremely comprehensive reference book...really has everything: extraction; cleanup; determination; QC; etc., for determining PCBs in a wide variety of matrices."-D.J. Roberts, School of Chemistry, University of Bristol