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EXTRACTION OF ORGANIC POLLUTANTS FROM SOLID SAMPLES USING MICROWAVE ENERGY
Citation:
Lopez-Avila, V., R. Young, J. Benedicto, P. Ho, R. Kim, AND W. Beckert. EXTRACTION OF ORGANIC POLLUTANTS FROM SOLID SAMPLES USING MICROWAVE ENERGY. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/J-96/038, 1995.
Description:
This study, which is part of an ongoing U.S. EPA research program, carried out by the Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory-Las Vegas, addresses new sample preparation techniques that (a) prevent or minimize pollution in analytical laboratories, (b) improve target analyte recoveries, and (c) reduce sample preparation costs. e present additional evaluation results of the microwave-assisted extraction (MAE) procedure for 187 compounds and four Aroclors listed in the EPA Methods 8250, 8081, and 8141A. ur results demonstrate that most of these compounds can be recovered in good yields from the matrices investigated. or example, recoveries ranged from 80 to 120 percent for 79 of the 95 compounds listed in Method 8250; 38 of the 45 organochlorine pesticides listed in Method 8081; and 34 of the 47 organophosphorus pesticides listed in Method 8141A. hen recoveries from freshly spiked soil samples were compared with those from aged samples, we found that recoveries usually decreased; as expected, there was more spread in recoveries with increased aging time. or 15 compounds in a reference soils, the recoveries of 14 compounds by MAE were equal to or better than recoveries obtained by Soxhlet extraction (naphthalene being the exception); for selected organochlorine pesticides, recoveries from spoked soil samples were at least 7 percent higher for MAE than for either Soxhlet or sonication extraction.