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Main Title Evaluation of protocols for pesticides and PCB's in raw wastewater /
Author Caragay, Alegria B., ; Levins., Philip L.
Other Authors
Author Title of a Work
Levins, Philip L.
CORP Author Little (Arthur D.), Inc., Cambridge, MA.;Municipal Environmental Research Lab., Cincinnati, OH.
Publisher Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Municipal Environmental Research Laboratory,
Year Published 1979
Report Number EPA-600/2-79-166; EPA-68-01-3857
Stock Number PB80-133184
OCLC Number 06259930
Subjects Pesticides--Law and legislation--United States ; Sewage disposal plants--United States
Additional Subjects Pesticides ; Water analysis ; Sewage treatment ; Chemical analysis ; Sampling ; Solvent extraction ; Gas chromatography ; Mass chromatography ; Separation ; Concentration(Composition) ; Chlorine organic compounds ; Polychlorinated biphenyls ; Procedures
Internet Access
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https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi?Dockey=2000WO3H.PDF
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EJBD  EPA 600-2-79-166 c.1 Headquarters Library/Washington,DC 04/02/2014
EKCD  EPA-600/2-79-166 CEMM/GEMMD Library/Gulf Breeze,FL 05/29/2018
ELBD ARCHIVE EPA 600-2-79-166 Received from HQ AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH 10/04/2023
EMBD  EPA/600/2-79/166 NRMRL/GWERD Library/Ada,OK 02/17/1995
ERAD  EPA 600/2-79-166 Region 9 Library/San Francisco,CA 10/01/2012
ESAD  EPA 600-2-79-166 Region 10 Library/Seattle,WA 11/07/1997
NTIS  PB80-133184 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation 100 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
Abstract
The general EPA protocol for screening industrial effluents for priority pollutants (Federal Register 38, No. 75, Part II), has been tested for its applicability to the analysis of the priority pollutant pesticides and PCB's in raw wastewater. Raw wastewater from the municipal sewage treatment plant in Brockton, Massachusetts was dosed with 1-30 ppb of the priority pollutant pesticides and PCB's. The overall procedure evaluated consists of the following steps: extraction with 15% methylene chloride/hexane with centrifugation to break up the emulsion, concentration by Kuderna-Danish evaporation, removal of interferences by acetonitrile partition, chromatography on Florisil and Sephadex LH-20, and sulfur removal by treatment with mercury. Samples were assayed by gas chromatography using an electron capture detector. The data obtained show that the Kuderna-Danish evaporation step could be a significant source of sample loss unless the evaporation process is carried out at a fast rate. Treatment with mercury effectively cleans up the extracts with no significant loss of pesticides. Sample clean-up on a Sephadex LH-20 is recommended as an alternative to the Florisil column clean-up procedure. The method tested works well for parts per billion determination.
Notes
Contract no. 68-01-3857. Includes bibliographical references (page 84).