Co-measurement of Volatile Organic and Sulfur Compounds in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region by Dual Detector Pneumatic Focusing Gas Chromatography

Developments in Environmental Science

Volumn 11, Issue , 2012, Pages 113-144

  O'Brien, R J ^a   Percy, K E ^b   Legge, A H ^c  

^a PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Wood Buffalo Environmental Association   (Canada)

^c Biosphere Solutions   (Canada)

Author keywords

Flame Ionization Detector (FID); Pneumatic Focusing Gas Chromatography (PFGC); Pulsed Flame Photometric Detector (PFPD); Reduced Sulphur Compound (RSC); Resolved VOCs; Sulphur Chemiluminescence Detector (SCD); Thiophenes; Total Nonmethane Hydrocarbons (TNMHC); Total Reduced Sulphur (TRS); Unresolved VOCs; Volatile Organic Compound (VOC)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867759508     PISSN: 14748177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-097760-7.00006-8     Document Type: Chapter

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