Analysis of Organic Micropollutants in Water

Session I - Sampling.- Introductory remarks on sampling.- Zur Entnahme von Grundwasserproben.- Sampling of surface waters for tracing macro- and micro-pollutants.- Techniques d’ e´chantillonnage pour 1’ analyse des traces organiques.- Extraction of sediments using ultrasonic and steam distillation treatments.- Session II-Analysis.- High resolution gas chromatography in water analysis: 12 years of development.- Analysis of organics in the environment by functional group using a triple quadrupole mass spectrometer.- Recent progress in LC/MS.- Computerized data handling in gas chranatography/mass spectrometry.- New developments in selective detection in capillary gas chromatography.- Determination of organic water pollutants by the combined use of high-performance liquid chromatography and high-resolution gas chromatography.- Analysis of organic micropollutants by HPLC.- Identification of non-volatile organics in water using field desorption mass spectrometry and high performance liquid chromatography.- Mass spectrometric identification of surfactants.- Characterisation of non-volatile organics from water by pyrolysis-gaschromatography-mass spectrometry.- Automated GC/MS for analysis of aromatic hydrocarbons in the marine environment.- Analysis of sulphonic acids and other ionic organic compounds using reversed-phase HPLC.- Closed loop stripping and cryogenic on-column focusing of trihalomethanes and related compounds for capillary gas chromatography.- Observations with cold on-column injection.- Polymethylphenylsilicones in fused silica capillary columns for gas chromatography.- Collaborative study on the mass spectrometric quantitative determination of toluene using isotope dilution technique.- Determination of volatile organic substances in water by GC/SIM resultsof an investigation on the rivers Rhine and Main.- Session III-Specific Analytical Problems.- Analytische Bestimmung organischer Halogenverbindungen.- Determination of organic sulphur, organic phosphorus and organic nitrogen.- Results from Round Robin Exercises of phenolic compounds within the COST 64b bis project.- Instrumental analysis of petroleum hydrocarbons.- Screening of pollution from a former municipal waste dump at the bank of a Danish inlet.- The impact on the ecology of polychlorinated phenols and other organics dumped at the bank of a small marine inlet.- Organic micropollutants from the pulp industry: analysis of lake Päijänne water.- Ground water pollution by organic solvents and their microbial degradation products.- Comparison of three methods for organic halogen determination in industrial effluents.- Organic micropollutants in surface waters of the Glatt Valley, Switzerland.- Species and persistence of pollutants in the pond water from an orchard area treated with organophosphorus pesticides.- Occurrence and origin of brominated phenols in Barcelona’s water supply.- The relationship between the concentration of organic matter in natural waters and the production of lipophilic volatile organohalogen compounds during their chlorination.- Session IV-Future Environmental Problems.- Standard setting principles.- Integration of the environment research action programme into the framework programme for community scientific and technical activities 1984-1987.- COST 64b bis project - Now and the future.- List of Participants.- Index of Authors.