Real-world implementation of dual canister and tube analysis of hazardous air pollutants using TD–GC–MS
Webinar
Webinar overview
Laboratories face increasing challenges in air pollutant monitoring: there is a need to implement robust, reliable, and method-compliant analytical workflows, adhering to increasingly stringent demands on analytical sensitivity. They must also deliver precise and comprehensive results across a range of methods and analytical and environmental requirements. Biochemie Lab, a leading environmental analysis laboratory, has successfully adopted a sampling approach using both canisters and thermal desorption (TD) tubes in their GC–MS system to meet these demands.
In this webinar, join environmental chemistry experts Mattia Belli and Dario Vannucchi as they share Biochemie Lab’s journey in integrating both canister and tube sampling for the analysis of hazardous air pollutants. They will share the advantages they have found in adopting TD–GC–MS technology, having optimised their method development and overcoming the challenges of methods such as US EPA TO-17 and TO-15A. They will discuss calibration protocols, the separation and trace-level detection limits they achieved, and the advantages of offering canister and tube sampling for comprehensive hazardous air pollutant analysis.
Learning outcomes
- Understand how TD–GC–MS can benefit air pollutant sampling
- Discover the advantages of using both canisters and tubes
- Find out more about the instrument setup, hardware, and configuration, and learn about the key parameters optimised for dual sampling
- Gain an overview of method compliance and adaptations whilst understanding the challenges and solutions in applying EPA Methods TO-17 and TO-15A
- Learn about the target compounds and their significance in canister analysis, along with calibration protocols and results, and the chromatographic separation and detection limits that can be achieved
- Discover innovations in sampling and detection techniques and the potential for expanded compound libraries or alternative applications
Presenters
Mattia Belli
Chemical Analyst, Biochemie Lab, Tuscany, Italy
Mattia Belli is an experienced environmental analytical chemist with both academic and corporate expertise in gas chromatography techniques. He specializes in analysis and method development using GC and GC-MS, utilizing diverse injection systems such as liquid, headspace, purge and trap, and thermal desorption. His expertise includes EPA method compliance and the development of operational protocols for identifying and quantifying VOCs and SVOCs in various environmental matrices, including air, water, and soil.
Dario Vannucchi
Chemical Analyst, Biochemie Lab, Tuscany, Italy
Dario Vannucchi is a supervisor for the Environmental Department at Biochemie Lab, he is responsible for all the processes involved in the analysis of air and water samples. Before, he was a senior specialist with over a decade of experience in GC/MS and GC/MS-MS analysis in various matrices. He received his Master’s degree at the University of Florence in Analytical Chemistry.
Hannah Calder
Environmental Air - Market Development Manager, Markes International, Bridgend, Wales
Hannah Calder is Markes International’s Environmental Air Market Development Manager, specializing in the application of thermal desorption in environmental air monitoring. Hannah joined Markes International’s team of technical experts in 2013, following her Master's degree in Chemistry obtained from Cardiff University. Hannah is involved with the development of international analytical standards for ambient and indoor air monitoring through CEN committees TC264 and TC351, ASTM committee D22, where she is one of the executive committee, and ISO TC146. She has a comprehensive knowledge of the use of thermal desorption as an analytical tool for air monitoring and has recently worked on projects for monitoring air toxics, ozone-depleting substances, and PFAS, amongst others.
