Industry: Environmental
Instrument: HT3 Static and Dynamic Headspace System
New Method for Fuel Oxygenates by Headspace Sampling
Oxygenated compounds have been added to gasoline for years. The benefits include better combustibility characteristics of the gasoline, resulting in a cleaner burning fuel. However, if or when these oxygenates leak into the environment, they easily dissolve into water. These compounds can render groundwater unsuitable for humans or animals. To ensure that the groundwater is clean from these unwanted compounds, the EPA has mandated testing. Headspace analysis provides a clean, faster and easy way to meet testing requirements. An additional benefit of headspace analysis is the elimination of possible system contamination from high concentrated samples. Classical Headspace methods have been challenged with oxygenated compounds. Typically, headspace samplers cannot achieve the low-end detection limits required by the EPA.
A new headspace sampler has been developed that is ideal for the testing of oxygenates and is capable of unprecedented low-end detection. By incorporating EPA-approved trapping techniques, the HT3 Headspace sampler is now capable of offering purge & trap analytic performance.
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