Analytical determination of hydrocarbons in the environment: issues and answers.

The Working Group ISPRA, ARPA / APPA, ISS, CNR-IRSA has completed the drafting of a new procedure for the determination of hydrocarbons in water. There is awareness about the necessity to assess the total hydrocarbons in this matrix to adequately respond to legislative requirements at national and European level. The work was set starting from the need to identify, according to internationally accepted standards, a unified method based on GC-FID measurements, after extraction through solvents suitable in all respects (analytical, environmental and safety aspects).

The measurement procedure was developed in 2013 and was validated by a collaborative trial which allowed to define the performance characteristics, whose results led to its final form. The seminar describes the process that led to the new procedure by addressing, through field experiences, some of the problematic aspects of environmental monitoring and control of hydrocarbons in an evolving regulatory framework.

Program

Video

Presentations

• S. Balzamo (ISPRA) - Introduzione: le ragioni di una nuova procedura

• E. Scialanca / A. Angelosante (MATTM) - Protocollo di Montreal e normativa Italiana di riferimento sugli usi essenziali di laboratorio per le sostanze che riducono lo strato di ozono

• P. Bolletti (ARPA Toscana) - Il controllo e il monitoraggio ambientale degli idrocarburi: l’esperienza in ARPA Toscana

• V. Frattini (ARPA Lombardia) - Il controllo e il monitoraggio ambientale degli idrocarburi: l’esperienza in ARPA Lombardia

• E. Veschetti (ISS) - Gli idrocarburi nelle acque destinate al consumo umano al seguito dell’evoluzione normativa

• P. De Zorzi (ISPRA) - Nuova procedura di misurazione degli idrocarburi nelle acque: sviluppo e convalida