Sample Handling and Trace Analysis of Pollutants: Innovations to Determine Organic Contaminants

Sample Handling and Trace Analysis of Pollutants: Innovations to Determine Organic Contaminants, Second Edition reviews the latest technologies and challenges in trace analysis of environmental pollutants, from selecting the right approach and tips for performing the analytic procedures, to measuring and reporting the results. Written by internationally renowned experts in environmental analysis from 5 continents and edited by the leaders in this field, this completely updated and revised volume presents the latest techniques that have developed significantly over the past 10 years, such as high-resolution mass spectrometry, biosensors, and imaging techniques. Important tools for problem-solving in the determination of environmental pollutants are discussed in detail. The book also covers emerging pollutants in the environment, such as nanomaterials, microplastics, metabolites and/or transformation products and antimicrobial resistances.  The book is divided into four sections. The first describes field sampling techniques and sample preparation in environmental matrices: air, water, soil, sediment and biota. Unique to this book are its coverage of air as well as the focus on passive samplers. The second section covers the determination of these environmental contaminants based on analytical techniques, such as the use of gas chromatography and liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry, immunoassays, and biosensors as well as advanced analytical methods such as imaging techniques. These chapters are focused on highly used techniques not covered in the previous edition. Validation and quality assurance are described in the third section, together with the interpretation of environmental data using advanced chemometric techniques. The newest contribution to this part is the addition of a chapter on the management and availability of already published information, which is a topic of increasing concern due to new policies of the European Union. The final section reports specific application areas, like microplastics, nanomaterials, antibacterial resistance, degradation products and/or metabolites.  Techniques discussed range from chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry, to emerging areas such as nanotechnology, immunoassays and biosensors Covers the characteristics, advantages, limitations, and potential of each technique and the current strategies in each method's development and validation Outlines practical solutions to challenging problems in the analysis of pollutants in environmental matrices, including how to combine techniques for improved efficacy INDICE: Section 1. Field Sampling Techniques, Sample Preparation and Extraction.   1. Analytical methods for determining organic compounds in air 2. Passive samplers for the analysis of organic compounds in water samples 3. Extraction of organic contaminants from grab and composite water samples 4. Separation, clean-up and recoveries of trace organic contaminants from soils and sediment 5. Separation, clean-up and recoveries of trace organic pollutants from biota 6. Handling of food samples Section 2. Trace analysis of organic pollutants 7. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry 8. Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry 9. Suspected and non-target high resolution mass spectrometry 10. Imaging techniques. The increasing role of imaging mass spectrometry 11. Immunoassays of organic contaminants 12. Fundamentals and applications of biosensors for environmental analysis 13. The role of nanomaterials and nanoparticles as analytical tools 14. Smartphone as a Portable Detector, Analytical Device, or Instrument Interface Section 3. Quality Assurance, Reference Materials, Chemometrics and Data Dissemination 15. Certified reference materials for the quality control of measurements in environmental monitoring 16. Standard reference materials for the determination of trace organic constituents in environmental samples 17. Guidelines to establish the quality assurance. Analytical parameters, Inter-laboratory studies 18. Data dissemination and repositories 19. Interpretation of environmental data using chemometrics 20. Determination of the uptake and accumulation of emerging contaminants in soil and plant treated with wastewater 21. Endocrine disrupting compounds 22. Current issues on micro- and nanoplastics 23. Determination of nanomaterials in the environment 24. Detection of antibiotic resistance genes (ARG) in water and sludges 25. Identification of metabolites and/or degradation products of environmental contaminants 26. The anthropic fingerprinting in wastewater: Wastewater based-epidemiology

• ISBN: 978-0-323-85601-0
• Editorial: Elsevier Science
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2023
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés