Environmental analysis: Smarter sample prep

14 Sept 2020

Environmental analysis of pollutants, water, and soil is essential in preserving and protecting our environment and limiting unnecessary exposure to contaminated material that threatens the livelihood of humans and wildlife. While good water quality is a key contributor to the preservation of a healthy ecosystem, maintaining healthy ecosystems also requires the analysis of soil, waste, and pollution, as well as fats, oils and grease.

In this application guide, learn how solid-phase extraction, developing instrumentation, and media formats can accommodate increasing compound lists, application-specific media, and custom media for specific application challenges. Also, find out how you can solve the challenges laboratories face by creating smarter sample prep workflow solutions that streamline analysis and meet the market requirements and regulatory methods for which they were designed. This eBook covers:

  • Drinking water solutions for semi-volatile organic compounds
  • Wasterwater: Influent and effluent solutions for semi-volatile organic compounds
  • Oil and grease: Avoid setbacks and improve workflows
  • Extraction and drying solutions: Hexane extractable material using SPE
  • Improving the SPE workflow for 1,4 dioxane in drinking water
  • EPH fractionation: Streamline your EPH fractionation process
  • Improve throughput and quality in determining diquat paraquat in drinking water

TurboVap® Family of Automated Solvent Evaporators

Biotage

TurboVap® evaporators automate nitrogen blowdown for fast, efficient solvent evaporation—up to 10x faster than traditional methods. With flexible configurations and modular manifolds, they handle diverse sample volumes and applications including SVOCs, pesticides, PCBs, and PAHs.

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Sample PreparationSample preparation can improve the quality and speed of separation techniques. Products to assist sample preparation include filtration equipment, evaporators, membranes and sieves.Environmental Monitoring and TestingEnvironmental monitoring and testing uses handheld portable analyzers, kits, spectrometers or chromatography systems for air, water, soil, food and other sample testing. Useful features of analyzers such as BOD and COD include portability, easy calibration, automation and sensitivity.  Environmental test kits for pH, water, moisture, etc, should be accurate, sensitive, reliable, fast and easy to use.Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are chemicals that have a low boiling point. Some VOCs are harmful to human health, whereas others can be used to determine the shelf-life of foods samples. Environmental AnalysisEnvironmental analysis describes a variety of tests that determine the effect of chemicals, processes and particulates such as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) have on the environment.Solid Phase Extraction (SPE)Solid phase extraction (SPE) is a sample preparation technique used to separate and concentrate analytes from complex mixtures. It is widely used in environmental, pharmaceutical, and clinical analysis. SPE provides higher sensitivity and selectivity compared to traditional liquid-liquid extraction methods, making it essential for accurate and reproducible results. Explore SPE tools and systems in our peer-reviewed product directory; compare products, check reviews, and get pricing directly from manufacturers.Semi Volatile Organic CompoundsSemi volatiles organic compounds (SVOCs) are a groups of compounds that have a low boiling point and evaporate above room temperature. SVOCs include phenols and polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH).