Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon and Organic Pollutants

违反省级法规的公司, state and/or federal regulations regarding hazardous waste are subject to increasingly severe consequences. Mismanagement of hydrocarbon and organic pollutants can have a detrimental effect on human health and the health of the environment.

im体育APP’s environmental experts can test for total petroleum hydrocarbons and other organic pollutants to help you recover and remediate these contaminants from the environment or your process stream. 

总石油碳氢化合物(TPH) 

总石油碳氢化合物(TPH) are compounds originating from crude oil and refined petroleum products. They are often broken out into fractions depending on the jurisdictional regulations. Our experts can help guide the selection of appropriate hydrocarbon analyses based on these jurisdictional regulatory requirements. 通常, 有一个轻的结束, 或者是挥发性部分和较重的一端, 或可提取分数, which may be divided into further fractions.  

It is not practical to measure each hydrocarbon individually but is useful to measure the total amount of all hydrocarbons found together in a particular sample of soil, 水, 废物或空气. The pattern of the hydrocarbon distribution can help to determine the source of contamination. This pattern of distribution is reported as a chromatogram and can act as a fingerprint since each hydrocarbon source produces a unique profile.  

im体育APP’s experts can test for petroleum hydrocarbons using two techniques:

• The heavier end hydrocarbons are solvent extracted followed by the analysis by Gas 色谱法 with Flame Ionization Detector (GC-FID). 
• The lighter volatile fraction will distribute itself into the headspace of a sealed vial upon heating and a sub-sample from the headspace is analyzed by Gas 色谱法 with Mass Spectroscopy (GC-MS).  

Our state-of-the-art laboratories are located across the globe to provide fast and accurate results.

其他有机污染物分析

While hydrocarbons are the most typical organic pollutants analyzed, there is a huge variety of other organic compounds that can be extremely toxic to the environment even at low quantities. These compounds are typically used in various commercial, industrial and agricultural processes and while extremely useful, they can cause serious environmental and human health effects if they are overused or misused. The general categories of substances analyzed at im体育APP include, but are not limited to:

• Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) – many of which are known to be or suspected to be carcinogenic.
• 醇, such as methanol, ethanol, and isopropanol.
• 乙二醇 are typically used as refrigerants in industrial, commercial and residential systems.
• 多氯联苯(pcb) – extremely recalcitrant compounds and potentially carcinogenic.
• 氯代酚类 – the most toxic of this group is pentachlorophenol (PCP) and has been used in creosote based wood preservatives.
• 挥发性有机污染物(VOCs) - an array of compounds that are typically used as solvents in many industrial and commercial processes (e.g. 干洗).
• 胺和亚砜 – used in the oil and 气体 processing to remove hydrogen sulfide and other toxic 气体es.  
• 杀虫剂,除草剂 – used in both agriculture and industry to suppress certain plants, 昆虫, molds or other organisms that may affect crop yields
• 消毒剂 – non-selective disinfectants that are used to prevent plant and microbial growth at industrial and even residential sites (like gravel driveways and fence lines). These compounds are very regulated and not typically used for residential purposes anymore.  

im体育APP can also complete “open scans” to identify and characterize unknown organic waste streams. 如果材料是未知的, it can be extracted and compared to a library of spectral images to identify these potential concerns. 

For more information on total petroleum hydrocarbon and other organic pollutant testing contact our environmental experts today.