contaminated soil analysis Articles
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A Novel Approach to Increase Sample Throughput on a CVAA Mercury Analyzer using an Injection Valve
ABSTRACT Mercury determination in soil plays a crucial role in agri‐ culture, environmental status, and human health. The de‐ tection of mercury allows for long‐term and short‐term analysis of each of these systems, and it gives information on specific sources of mercury contamination. The analysis of soil yields quantitative data for water quality, air quali‐ ty, ...
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The Alberta Swan Hills Special Waste Treatment Centre expansion: environmental concerns
This article examines the establishment and recent expansion of the high technology special Waste Management Treatment Centre at Swan Hills, Alberta. The focus is on a number of deficiencies in the expansion application and potential negative environmental impacts that may have been inadequately assessed by the review process then existing. These concerns include weaknesses in site geology, ...
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Titanium as an indicator of residual soil on arid-land plants
Titanium (Ti) has been suggested as a soil contamination indicator for plant samples slated for trace element analysis because it is abundant in soil but not in plants. Based on results from our survey of regional soils and plants for cesium (Cs), we sought to confirm Ti as a valid soil contamination indicator reasoning that there are three sources of Ti associated with plant samples: (i) ...
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Oil Analysis Helps Keep the Trains Running - Case study
Based in Tullow, Ireland, T.E. Laboratories ("the Laboratories"), provides oil, fuel and environmental analysis services for a variety of customers, including Irish Rail, Ireland's national railway system. It regularly uses equipment from Spectro, Inc., including the Spectroil Q100 spectrometer. When the analysis of oil samples from a main locomotive showed a large amount of severe wear ...
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Remediation oversight and monitoring case study
Service(s) performed: Underground storage tank removal and contaminated soil excavation and disposal Summary: In a residential and commercial area of a major U.S. city, an abandoned gas station site was targeted for redevelopment. To assist the area’s remediation efforts, our environmental team removed a 15,000-gallon underground storage tank, performed associated impacted soil sampling ...
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Sustainable agriculture and water quality control: a structural approach
This paper reports on research empirically focused on the Brittany region in France, its agricultural sector and the impacts of agricultural activity on water quality. Our goal was to define and estimate indicators that illustrate the confrontation between environmental performance and economic cost criteria, in the context of a comparative scenario analysis related to the growth and ...
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Soil Contamination and Possible Threats to Human Health
In 2007, the city of Salisbury, North Carolina, purchased a piece of land that was the location of a former service station. The property had been given a clean bill of health in 1991 and again in 2007 just before the property was purchased. Last year, the city began site preparations to build a new central office for the local schools when soil contamination was found. It turns out seven ...
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How the Portable Quadrupole Analyser (pQA) Can Be Used in Climate Change Studies
Climate change studies have been increasingly common and important in recent years. The impact of human activities on the environment, global warming, and sea level rises have been well documented and debated, and whilst we have gained a deeper understanding of these issues in recent years, there is still so much more to learn. In this article, we discuss how the pQA from Hiden Analytical can be ...
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