Mj. Geerdink et al., FAST SCREENING OF CONTAMINATED SOIL SAMPLES USING THERMAL-DESORPTION MASS-SPECTROMETRY, Analytica chimica acta, 315(1-2), 1995, pp. 159-166
A fast analysis technique for the determination of oil concentrations
in soil and sediment samples is described and validated. The so-called
thermal desorption mass spectrometry combination (TD-MS) proved to be
a very rapid analytical method for mineral oil in soil. When compared
to a soxhlet extraction and to the standard method of analysis, the l
atter yielded significantly different results compared to the other tw
o methods, while the results from TD-MS and soxhlet extraction did not
differ significantly from each other. Of the three methods TD-MS yiel
ded the lowest variance for multiple analyses. Total time for the anal
ysis of a wet soil sample was 20 min, including sample preparation.