title: The use of activiated carbon for sampling industrial environs.
abstract: This paper describes techniques employed at a large semiconductor manufacturing plant to analyze for organic contaminants in production areas. Activated carbon was employed in the sampling procedure as the collection medium. Vapors of a number of common industrial solvents were absorbed and collected on the activated carbon surface at concentrations in the ppm and sub-ppm range. Analyses of the collected samples, stripped from the carbon surfaces with carbon disulfide, were performed by gas chromatography using a number of different colum packings. Also discussed is work carried out using a gas chromatograph-mass spectometer system to separate and then identify individual constituents. Other related applications of activated carbon sampling are also reported.
mesh_terms: D000327:Adsorption; D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D000397:Air Pollution / Q000032:analysis*; D002244:Carbon; D002246:Carbon Disulfide / Q000032:analysis; D002849:Chromatography, Gas; D009787:Occupational Medicine; D013053:Spectrophotometry; D014050:Toluene / Q000032:analysis; D014241:Trichloroethylene / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants; D014241:Trichloroethylene; D014050:Toluene; D002244:Carbon; D002246:Carbon Disulfide