Gas Chromatographic Determination of Aviation Gasoline and JP-4 Jet Fuel in Subsurface Core Samples
- 1 November 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Chromatographic Science
- Vol. 26 (11) , 566-569
- https://doi.org/10.1093/chromsci/26.11.566
Abstract
A new gas chromatographic procedure for quantifying levels of aviation gasoline (avgas) and JP-4 jet fuel contamination in soils is described. The fuel is extracted from a small quantity of soil or subsurface material, typically about 6 g, using 3 mL of methylene chloride. The extract is analyzed by wide-bore capillary column gas chromatography with flame ionization detection. Advantages of the method are (1) a short analysis time of 20 minutes, (2) the use of small amounts of solvent, (3) detection limit in the low parts-per-million range, and (4) determination of the type of fuel contamination (i.e., avgas or jet fuel) by the chromatographic pattern or “fingerprint.”This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
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