Analysis of Organic Micropollutants in Water

by.- Session I - Sampling and Sample Treatment.- Recent concepts in sampling methodology.- A new method for the quantitative analysis of organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls.- Concentration and identification of the main organic micro-pollutants classes in waters.- Recovery of organic micropollutants.- Influence of humus with time on organic pollutants and comparison of two analytical methods for analysing organic pollutants in humus water.- Improved accumulation of organophosphates from aqueous media by formation of ion-associates with tetraphenylarsonium cation.- The use of ECD and FID fingerprint techniques for the evaluation of river water purification contaminated with organic pollutants.- Lekkerkerk.- Session II - Gas-Chromatography.- Sampling techniques for capillary GC.- Recent developments of selective detectors in GC.- Progress in column technology.- Recent developments in capillary column preparation.- Techniques for quantitation and identification of organic micropollutants by high resolution gas chromatography and element specific emission spectroscopy.- Applications in gas chromatography.- The use of fused-silica capillary columns in gas chromatography and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry.- The determination of linear PTGC retention indices for use in environmental organics analysis.- Session III - Separation and Analysis of Non-Volatile Compounds.- Developments in selective detectors for HPLC.- Kopplung eines Hochleistungschromatographen mit einem Massenspektrometer.- Identification of non-volatile organic compounds in water.- Routine HPLC of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons.- Evaluation of a mass detector for HPLC determination of organic compounds in water.- Determination of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH’s) at the lowng/1 level in the Biesbosch water storage reservoirs (Neth.) for the study of the degradation of chemicals in surface waters.- Assessment of a moving belt type HPLC-MS interface with respect to its use in organic water pollution analysis.- Session IV - Mass-Spectrometry.- Apport de la spectrométrie de masse avec collisions (CID/MS/MS) àl’étude des micropolluants organiques.- Session V - Data Processing.- Software systems for mass spectrometry - Remarks in view of GC/MS analysis of water pollutants.- Compilation of an inventory of organic pollutants in the aqueous environment.- Status of the computerized compilation of mass-spectra of organic pollutants.- Current status of the compilation of reference data.- Session VI - Specific Analytical Problems.- A. Organic halogens.- Determination of organic halogens; a critical review of sum parameters.- Volatile halogenated hydrocarbons in river water, ground water, drinking water and swimming-pool water in the Federal Republic of Germany.- Simultaneous determination of total purgable organo-chlorine, -bromine and -fluorine compounds in water by ion-chromato-graphy.- Etude des trihalomethanes dans l’eau potable de Barcelone – Evolution de l’efficacité des filtres à charbon actif.- Analysis of trihalomethanes formed during drinking water chlorination.- B. Phenolic and other compounds.- Determination of phenolics in the aquatic environment.- Analysis of alkylphenols in an aqueous matrix containing aromatic hydrocarbons.- Analysis of nitrogenous organic substances in water.- The electroanalysis of organic pollutants in aquatic matrices.- Determination of nonylphenols and nonylphenolethoxylates in secondary sewage effluents.- Determination of phenols in water by HPLC.- Surfactants survey in the surface waters in theParis-area.- CONCLUSIONS by the Coordinators of the Working Parties.- List of Participants.- Index of authors.