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ISBN: Im Zuge der Harmonisierung der Rechtsvorschriften der Mitgliedsstaaten der Europäischen Gemeinschaft wurde im September 1996 die Richtlinie 96/59/EG des Rates über die Beseitigung polychlorierter Biphenyle und polychlorierter Terphenyle (PCB/PCT) verabschiedet. Ziel dieser Richtlinie ist die Angleichung der Rechtsvorschriften der Mitgliedstaaten über die kontrollierte Beseitigung der PCB, die Dekontaminierung oder Beseitigung PCB-haltiger Geräte und die Beseitigung von PCB-Abfall. In der Bundesrepublik Deutschland wurde mit der Verabschiedung der PCB/PCT- Abfallverordnung vom 26. Juni 2000 die EU-Richtlinie umgesetzt. Entsprechend der PCB/PCT-Abfallverordnung wird für PCB-haltigen Abfall ein Grenzwert von 50 mg/kg festgelegt. Beim Haupteinsatzgebiet der PCB - als Isolierflüssigkeiten in Transformatoren - ist die Bestimmung des PCB-Gehaltes durch DIN-Normen geregelt. Polychlorierte Biphenyle wurden auch als Weichmacher in Dichtungsmassen und Kunststoffen, z.B. in Kabelummantelungen, und als Flammschutzmittelanstrich für Holz eingesetzt. Für feste Abfallmatrices gibt es keine verbindliche Prüfvorschrift. Ziel des Projektes war die Erarbeitung und Validierung eines Prüfverfahrens zur Bestimmung von PCB und PCT in organischen Abfallmatrices wie Kabelshredder und Altholz.
The capabilities of National Metrology Institutes (NMIsthose which are members of the Comité Consultatif pour la Quantité de Matière (CCQM)of the CIPM) and selected outside "expert" laboratories to quantitate (C4H9)3Sn+ (TBT) in a prepared marine sediment were assessed. This exercise was sanctioned by the 7th CCQM meeting, April 46, 2001, as an activity of the Inorganic Analysis Working Group and was jointly piloted by the Institute for National Measurement Standards of the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and the Laboratory of the Government Chemist (LGC), UK. A total of 11 laboratories submitted results (7 NMIs, and 4 external labs). Two external laboratories utilized a standard calibration approach based on a natural abundance TBT standard, whereas all NMIs relied upon isotope dilution mass spectrometry for quantitation. For this purpose, a species specific 117Sn-enriched TBT standard was supplied by the LGC. No sample preparation methodology was prescribed by the piloting laboratories and, by consequence, a variety of approaches was adopted by the participants, including mechanical shaking, sonication, accelerated solvent extraction, microwave assisted extraction and heating in combination with Grignard derivatization, ethylation and direct sampling. Detection techniques included ICPMS (with GC and HPLC sample introduction), GCMS, GCAED and GCFPD. Recovery of TBT from a control standard (NRCC CRM PACS-2 marine sediment) averaged 93.5±2.4% (n=14). Results for the pilot material averaged 0.680±0.015 µmol kg1 (n=14; 80.7±1.8 µg kg1) with a median value of 0.676 µmol kg1. Overall, performance was substantially better than state-of-the-art expectations and the satisfactory agreement amongst participants permitted scheduling of a follow-up Key comparison for TBT (K-28), a Pilot intercomparison for DBT (P-43), and certification of the test sediment for TBT content and its release as a new Certified Reference Material (HIPA-1) with a TBT content of 0.679±0.089 µmol kg1 (expanded uncertainty, k=2, as Sn) (80.5±10.6 µg kg1). Electronic Supplementary Material Supplementary material is available in the online version of this article at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00216-003-2016-9.
Ethanol/water solutions as certified reference materials for breath alcohol analyzer calibration
(2010)
The Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Germany, has issued a series of large volume ethanol in water certified reference materials (CRMs), primarily developed for the calibration of evidential breath alcohol analyzers in Germany. The certified parameter is the ethanol mass concentration at 20 °C. When used in a wet bath simulator, the solutions deliver gas samples that meet the requirements set by the Organization of Legal Metrology for calibration of breathalyzers. The materials were prepared gravimetrically by spiking of ethanol into water in single 5 L units. A complete uncertainty budget for the preparation process has been established. The purity of the commercial ethanol stock solution was identified to be the main source of uncertainty. For stability and homogeneity measurements and for the verification of the gravimetric mass concentration of the CRMs, a robust high-precision gas chromatography, with flame-ionization detection method for ethanol determination in aqueous samples was developed and validated. The good performance of this method has been demonstrated in several international comparisons organized by the Consultative Committee for Amount of Substance-Metrology in Chemistry at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures.
KEY COMPARISON
At the October 2005 CCQM Organic Analysis Working Group Meeting (IRMM, Belgium), the decision was made to proceed with a Key Comparison study (CCQM-K47) addressing the calibration function for the determination of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) used for water quality monitoring. This was coordinated by CENAM and NIST. Benzene, o-xylene, m-xylene and p-xylene were chosen as representative VOCs. The solvent of choice was methanol.
Key Comparison CCQM-K47 demonstrated the capabilities of participating NMIs to identify and measure the four target VOCs in a calibration solution using GC-based methods. The measurement challenges in CCQM-K47, such as avoiding volatility loss, achieving adequate chromatographic resolution and isolating potential interferences, are typical of those required for value-assigning volatile reference materials. Participants achieving comparable measurements for all four VOCs in this Key Comparison should be capable of providing reference materials and measurements for VOCs in solutions when present at concentration levels greater than 10 µg/g.