Application and optimization of headspace solid-phase microextraction (HS-SPME) coupled with gas chromatography-flame-ionization detector (GC-FID) to determine products of the petroleum industry in aqueous samples

Microchemical Journal

Volumn 108, Issue , 2013, Pages 117-123

  Tankiewicz, Maciej ^a   Morrison, Calum ^b   Biziuk, Marek ^a  

^a GDANSK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gas chromatography; Headspace solid phase microextraction (HS SPME); Hydrocarbons (C6 C20); Petroleum products; Water samples

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874547540     PISSN: 0026265X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.microc.2012.10.010     Document Type: Article

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