Environmental Instrumentation and Analysis Handbook
edited by Randy D. Down
and Jay H. Lehr

A fact-based, unbiased directory of tools and techniques for analyzing contamination in air, water, and soil!

Environmental Instrumentation and Analysis Handbook is the first book to comprehensively catalog the benefits and drawbacks of virtually every available tool and technique.

More than three dozen veteran environmental professionals describe the basic science that supports their field analyses, and then provide invaluable firsthand case studies and reports regarding:

• Equipment and methodologies at use in the field
• Applicability of a particular instrument in an analytical technique
• What can go wrong and why—and how to avoid it

Environmental Instrumentation and Analysis Handbook combines all of the pertinent data into one innovative resource, providing new help for field professionals who need to understand which instruments and procedures have worked best under certain conditions, and how to successfully implement them.

Contents

1. Instrumentation Methodologies
   1. Influence of Regulatory Requirements on Instrumentation Design
   2. In Situ Versus Extractive Measurement Techniques
   3. Validation of Continuous Emission Monitor (CEM) System Accuracy and Reliability
   4. Integration of CEM into Distributed Control Systems
   5. Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy
   6. Ultraviolet Analyzers
   7. Total Hydrocarbon Analysis Using Flame Ionization Detector
   8. Gas Chromatography in Environmental Analysis
   9. Online Analysis of Environmental Samples by Mass Spectrometry
   10. Photoionization
   11. Portable Versus Stationary Analytical Instruments
   12. Application of XRF to the Analysis of Environmental Samples
   13. Laboratory Analysis
   14. Solid-Phase Microextraction
   15. Continuous Particulate Monitoring
   16. Gas Survey Instruments
   17. Ion Chromatography for the Analysis of Inorganic Anions in Water
   18. Ultraviolet–Visible Analysis of Water and Wastewater

2. Water Quality Parameters
   19. Thermal Conductivity Detectors
   20. Opacity Monitors
   21. Temperature Measurement
   22. pH Analyzers and Their Application
   23. Conductivity Analyzers and Their Application
   24. Turbidity Monitoring
   25. Watershed Scale, Water Quality Monitoring–Water Sample Collection

3. Ground Water Monitoring
   26. Level Measurements in Groundwater Monitoring Wells
   27. Laboratory Analysis of Wastewater and Groundwater Samples
   28. Techniques for Groundwater Sampling
   29. Soil Permeability and Dispersion Analysis
   30. Passive Sampling
   31. Instrumentation in Groundwater Monitoring
   32. Microbiological Field Sampling and Instrumentation in Assessment of Soil and Groundwater Pollution

4. Wastewater Monitoring
   33. Use of Instrumentation for pH Control
   34. Automatic Wastewater Sampling Systems
   35. Optimum Wastewater Sampling Locations
   36. Wastewater Level Measurement Techniques

5. Air Monitoring
   37. Data Acquisition Systems for Ambient Air Monitoring
   38. Air Pollution Control Systems
   39. Measurement of Ambient Air Quality

6. Flow Monitoring
   40. Air Flow Measurement
   41. Gas Flow Measurement
   42. Non-Open-Channel Flow Measurement
   43. Open-Channel Wastewater Flow Measurement Techniques
   44. Compliance Flow Monitoring in Large Stacks and Ducts

Index

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