GC/MS: A Valid Tool for Soil Gas Hydrocarbons Speciation

Laura Clerici; Emanuela Mongini; Pasquale Robles; Pierluisa Dellavedova; Maria Antonietta De Gregorio

doi:10.4236/ijamsc.2015.33007

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GC/MS: A Valid Tool for Soil Gas Hydrocarbons Speciation ()

Laura Clerici¹, Emanuela Mongini¹, Pasquale Robles¹, Pierluisa Dellavedova², Maria Antonietta De Gregorio¹

¹U.O. Laboratorio di Milano, Sede Laboratoristica di via Juvara—Settore Laboratori—ARPA LOMBARDIA, Milano, Italia.
²Settore Laboratori—ARPA LOMBARDIA, Milano, Italia.

DOI: 10.4236/ijamsc.2015.33007 PDF HTML XML 3,339 Downloads 4,089 Views

Abstract

This work describes an alternative method based on GC/MS technique with SCAN-ion approach for speciation of hydrocarbons contained in soil gas matrices and sampled on solid sorbent tubes (coconut shell charcoal).

Keywords

Hydrocarbons, Soil Gas Matrices, Solid Sorbent Tubes, Soil Gas, GC/MS

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Clerici, L. , Mongini, E. , Robles, P. , Dellavedova, P. and Gregorio, M. (2015) GC/MS: A Valid Tool for Soil Gas Hydrocarbons Speciation. International Journal of Analytical Mass Spectrometry and Chromatography, 3, 54-62. doi: 10.4236/ijamsc.2015.33007.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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