Environmental mass spectrometry: emerging contaminants and current issues

SD Richardson - Analytical chemistry, 2008 - ACS Publications
BACKGROUND This biennial review covers developments in environmental mass
spectrometry for emerging environmental contaminants over the period of 2006-2007. A few …

Analysis, occurrence and fate of MTBE in the aquatic environment over the past decade

M Rosell, S Lacorte, D Barceló - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2006 - Elsevier
In the past decade, it became progressively more evident that fuel oxygenate methyl tertiary
butyl ether (MTBE) is nearly ubiquitous in the worldwide environment. The frequency of …

Determination of parabens in pharmaceutical formulations by solid-phase microextraction-ion mobility spectrometry

JK Lokhnauth, NH Snow - Analytical chemistry, 2005 - ACS Publications
Solid-phase microextraction (SPME) coupled with ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) was used
for the detection and quantitation of 4-hydroxybenzoate preservatives, methylparaben …

Fast analysis of high‐energy compounds and agricultural chemicals in water with desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry

CC Mulligan, DK MacMillan, RJ Noll… - … in Mass Spectrometry …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Novel sampling and detection methods using desorption electrospray ionization (DESI) are
examined in the detection of explosives (RDX, TNT, HMX, and TNB) and agricultural …

Determination of gasoline residues on carpets by SPME–GC-MS technique

AM Dhabbah, SS Al-Jaber, AH Al-Ghamdi… - Arabian Journal for …, 2014 - Springer
The analysis of traces ignitable liquids on a burned carpet could provide information to a
forensic investigation. While the research on this field is still limited, this study illustrates the …

Solid phase micro‐extraction coupled with ion mobility spectrometry for the analysis of ephedrine in urine

JK Lokhnauth, NH Snow - Journal of separation science, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Quantitative solid phase micro‐extraction (SPME) coupled with ion mobility spectrometry is
demonstrated using the analysis of ephedrine in urine. Since its inception in the 1970's ion …

Analysis of methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) and tert-butyl alcohol (TBA) in ground and surface water

TC Schmidt - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2003 - Elsevier
The fuel oxygenate methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) is one of the most frequently detected
volatile organic compounds in groundwater and, thus, has become a priority groundwater …

State of the art in the determination of MTBE in natural waters and soils

J Atienza, P Aragón, MA Herrero… - Critical reviews in …, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
Methyl tert-buthyl ether (MTBE) is used as an oxygenate additive in gasoline, and in the last
years contamination of natural water, soils or air has taken place as result of MTBE use …

Simultaneous determination of methyl tert-butyl ether, its degradation products and other gasoline additives in soil samples by closed-system purge-and-trap gas …

M Rosell, S Lacorte, D Barceló - Journal of Chromatography A, 2006 - Elsevier
A new protocol for the simultaneous determination of methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE); its main
degradation products: tert-butyl alcohol (TBA) and tert-butyl formate (TBF); other gasoline …

Classification of produced water samples using class-oriented chemometrics and comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry

JEB Castiblanco, VHC Ferreira, CA Teixeira… - Talanta, 2024 - Elsevier
Produced water (PW) is a type of wastewater that arises during oil and gas production. Due
to its potential environmental impact, PW is one of the most closely monitored forms of …