Stability of volatile organics in environmental soil samples

Abstract

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HYCOM Coastal Ocean Hindcasts and Predictions: Impact of Nesting in HYCOM GODAE Assimilative Hindcasts

“…Additionally, the samples will be shipped to the reference laboratory under these conditions. These precautions will be taken per the guidance outlined in, "Stability of Explosives in Environmental Water and Soil Samples [6]. "…”

“…This level has been established for soil by the U.S. Army Environmental Center to be 10% by weight (100,000 mg/kg) [7]. Equally as important is evaluating if the technology can accurately determine if a sample meets a specified cleanup level, such as 0.5 mg/kg for RDX [6], or if it exceeds the EPA's health advisory limit of 2 µg/L for TNT [8].…”

Practical reporting times for environmental samples

“…Holding-time studies for volatile organic compounds and explosives were conducted at ORNL (7,8,11) from August 1986 to September 1988. Data from these studies were used to develop the Practical Reporting Time definition.…”

“…The risks for holding samples beyond their PRT can be determined using the sigma-to-slope ratio and the nomograph presented in this report. (7,8,9,10). The purpose of this study is twofold.…”

The stability of TNT, RDX and PETN in simulated post-explosion soils: Implications of sample preparation for analysis

“…However, although a large proportion of research investigating the degradation of explosives in soil has stored soil samples at room temperature [5, 8, 9, 13, 14, 19, 23-25, 27, 28, 32], comparatively little research [12,18,22] exists in the literature where researchers have trialled different storage temperatures to assess the effect of temperature on the stability of explosives in soil samples. One recent example comes from DeTata et al [12], who investigated the fate of a variety of explosives in 3 different soils.…”