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OMB No. 0704-0188
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1. REPORT DATE (DD-MM-YY)
2. REPORT TYPE
3. DATES COVERED (From - To)
May 2001
Technical Report 01-9
4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE
5a. CONTRACT NUMBER
5b. GRANT NUMBER
Field Gas Chromatography/Thermionic Detector System
for On-Site Determination of Explosives in Soils
5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER
6. AUTHOR(S)
5d. PROJECT NUMBER
Alan D. Hewitt, Thomas F. Jenkins, and Thomas A. Ranney
5e. TASK NUMBER
5f. WORK UNIT NUMBER
7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES)
8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION REPORT
NUMBER
U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center
Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
72 Lyme Road
ERDC/CRREL TR-01-9
Hanover, New Hampshire 03755-1290
9. SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES)
10. SPONSOR / MONITOR'S ACRONYM(S)
AEC
U.S. Army Environmental Center
Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland 21010-5401
11. SPONSOR / MONITOR'S REPORT
NUMBER(S)
SFIM-AEC-ET-CR-200122
12. DISTRIBUTION / AVAILABILITY STATEMENT
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
Available from NTIS, Springfield, Virginia 22161.
13. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES
14. ABSTRACT
On-site determination of nitroaromatic, nitramine, and nitrate ester explosives compounds in soils was performed using a field-portable gas
chromatograph (GC) equipped with a thermionic ionization detector (TID) selective for compounds with nitro functional groups. Soil
samples were extracted with acetone. A 1-L volume of the filtered soil extract was manually injected into the GC, allowing for the rapid
qualification and quantification of the suite of explosives that often coexist in soils at military training facilities and other defense-related
sites. Good agreement was established for the concentrations of several explosives analytes when this method of analysis was compared to
either high-performance liquid chromatography (Method 8330) or GC electron capture (Method 8095) analysis. Comparisons were per-
formed for sample extracts and for soil subsample replicates distributed for on-site preparation and analysis during a field verification test
performed under the auspices of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) Program.
15. SUBJECT TERMS
Explosives
On-site
Gas chromatography
Soil
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Standard Form 298 (Rev. 8-98)
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