Sample Handling and Trace Analysis of Pollutants

Prof. dr. Barcelo Damia, Director of the Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA) and Professor at the Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA), Barcelona, Spain. His expertise is in water quality assessment and management, fate, risk and removal of emerging contaminants in wastewater treatment plants and analysis, fate and risk of emerging contaminants and nanomaterials in the aquatic environment. He published over 900 papers, 200 book chapters and has h index 91. He was a coordinator of several national and EU projects and at the moment he coordinates two EU projects: GLOBAQUA , on multiple stressors in the aquatic environment and SEA-on-a-CHIP, on the development of sensor technolgies for emerging contamaints in marine aquaculture. He is CoEditor in Chief of the journal Science of Total Environment and the book series Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry, both form Elsevier..

Part headings and selected chapters: Field Sampling Techniques and Sample Preparation. Sample handling strategies for the analysis of organic compounds in environmental water samples (M.-C. Hennion). Applications of microwave-assisted extraction in environmental analysis (V. Lopez-Avila). Sample handling and analysis of pesticides and their transformation products in water matrices by liquid chromatographic techniques (D. Barceló). Application Areas. Environmental applications of gas chromatography-atomic emission detection (H. Bagheri et al.). Methods for the determination and evaluation of chlorinated biphenyls (CBs) in environmental matrices (D.E. Wells, P. Hess).Liquid chromatographic and biorecognition techniques for the determination of phenols and their substituted derivatives in water samples (G.A. Marko-Varga). HPLC methods for the determination of mycotoxins and phytotoxins (J.F. Lawrence, P.M. Scott). Determination of radionuclides in environmental samples (V. Valković). Determination of organic pollutants in industrial wastewater effluents (M. Castillo, D. Barceló). Quality Assurance, Reference Materials and Chemometrics. Certified reference materials for the quality control of measurements in environmental monitoring (E.A. Maier). Emerging Techniques. Application of capillary electrophoresis in environmental analysis (J. Riu, D. Barceló). Application of fluorescence spectroscopic techniques in determination of PAHs and PAH metabolites (F. Ariese et al.). LC/MS interfacing systems in environmental analysis: applications to polar pesticides (J. Slobodík, U.A.Th. Brinkman). Organometallic compounds determination in the environment by hyphenated techniques (R. Ritsema, O.F.X. Donard). Fundamentals and applications of biosensors for environmental analysis (M.-P. Marco).