Shopping Cart

No products in the cart.

BSI PAS 61:2006

$39.73

Determination of priority pollutants in surface water using passive sampling

Published By Publication Date Number of Pages
BSI 2006 24
Guaranteed Safe Checkout
Categories: ,

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to our online customer service team by clicking on the bottom right corner. We’re here to assist you 24/7.
Email:[email protected]

PDF Catalog

PDF Pages PDF Title
3 Contents
1 Scope 3
2 Normative references 3
3 Terms and definitions 3
4 Principle 4
5 Handling sampling devices 5
5.1 General 5
5.2 Organics sampling devices 5
5.3 Metals sampling devices 5
6 Estimation of appropriate field deployment time 5
7 Sampling device preparation and assembly 6
7.1 Sampling device preparation 6
7.2 Sampling device assembly 6
7.3 Sampling device storage 6
8 Quality assurance 6
8.1 General 6
8.2 Replicate quality control sampling devices 7
8.3 Sampling device controls 7
9 Selection of sampling site and safety precautions 9
9.1 Selection of sampling site 9
9.2 General safety precautions 9
10 Sampling device deployment and retrieval 10
10.1 Materials and apparatus 10
10.2 Deployment procedure 10
10.3 Retrieval procedure 11
11 Extraction of analytes from sampling devices and preparation for analysis 12
12 Analysis 12
13 Calculation 13
14 Test report 14
Bibliography 18
Annexes
Annex A (informative) Relevant analytical methods (European and international standards) 15
Annex B (informative) Quality control measures 16
B.1 Recovery 16
B.2 Method detection limits (LoD) 17
B.3 Precision 17
List of figures
Figure 1 Schematic representation of a passive sampling device 2
Figure 2 Quality control samples involved in passive sampling 7
List of tables
4 Foreword
6 Figure 1 Schematic representation of a passive sampling device
7 1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
3.1 analytical recovery standard
3.2 fabrication control
3.3 field control
3.4 passive sampling
8 3.5 priority pollutant
3.6 performance reference compound (PRC)
3.7 reagent control
3.8 recovery spike
3.9 sampling device class
3.10 shipping control (optional)
4 Principle
9 5 Handling sampling devices
5.1 General
5.2 Organics sampling devices
5.3 Metals sampling devices
6 Estimation of appropriate field deployment time
10 7 Sampling device preparation and assembly
7.1 Sampling device preparation
7.2 Sampling device assembly
7.3 Sampling device storage
8 Quality assurance
8.1 General
11 8.2 Replicate quality control sampling devices
8.3 Sampling device controls
Figure 2 Quality control samples involved in passive sampling
12 Table 1 Sampling device control requirements
13 9 Selection of sampling site and safety precautions
9.1 Selection of sampling site
a) sources of vapour-phase contaminants, including engine fumes, oils, tars, gasoline, diesel fuel, paints, solvents, cigarette smoke and asphalt pavement, if organics sampling devices are to be used;
b) sources of metallic contamination, if metals sampling devices are to be used;
c) oily films or biofilms on the surface of the water;
d) adequate water depth to keep the sampling device submerged throughout deployment under all conditions;
9.2 General safety precautions
14 10 Sampling device deployment and retrieval
10.1 Materials and apparatus
10.2 Deployment procedure
15 10.3 Retrieval procedure
16 11 Extraction of analytes from sampling devices and preparation for analysis
12 Analysis
17 13 Calculation
18 14 Test report
a) sampling device manufacturer;
b) sampling device batch number;
c) sampling device field identification;
d) sampling device uptake rate and the method used to determine it;
e) sampling location, date and time of deployment and retrieval of sampling devices, site characteristics and name of person deploying and retrieving the device;
f) where applicable, further information on the sample site, e.g. previous levels of any pollutants found;
g) water quality parameters recorded at deployment and retrieval;
h) any performance reference compounds used and their levels in sampling devices before and after exposure;
i) analytical performance compounds used;
j) sample preparation method;
k) analytical method;
l) levels of target analytes quantified in quality control samples;
m) time weighted average concentration of analyte in the surface water, with its estimated uncertainty.
19 Annex A (informative) Relevant analytical methods (European and international standards)
20 Annex B (informative) Quality control measures
B.1 Recovery
21 B.2 Method detection limits (LoD)
B.3 Precision
22 Bibliography
BSI PAS 61:2006
$39.73