The Use of Headspace With Sample Concentration to Meet Alberta Tier 1 VOC Guidelines Pat Steffes K’(Prime) Technologies Inc. April 25, 2013
Current Techniques 2 Purge and Trap CTC Headspace Traditional Headspace
3 ITEX (In-Tube Extraction)
ITEX Technique 4
Chromatography 5
Calibration Curve 6
0.1 ppb Vinyl Chloride Standard 7
Integration of Carbon Tetrachloride at 0.4 ppb 8
Further Work Determine life cycle of traps and heaters Experiment with other trap materials 9
Thanks Preston Kulmatycki for application work and application note Joe Crumbaugh and Brenda Chomin of WEALA