Trace Determination of Pesticides and their Degradation Products in Water (BOOK REPRINT) / Edition 1

by Damia Barcelo, M.-C. Hennion

Overview

Trace Determination of Pesticides and their Degradation Products in Water is a critical compilation of analytical methods for the monitoring of pesticides and their degradation products in water. It contains up-to-date material and is the result of the authors' experience in the pesticide analysis field. The book is structured in six chapters, starting from general aspects of pesticides like usage, physicochemical parameters and occurrence in the environment. A second chapter is devoted to sampling from water matrices, stability methods of pesticides in water and quality assurance issues. The general chromatographic methods for pesticides are reported, including the newly developed electrophoresis methods and GC-MS and LC-MS confirmatory analytical methods. Sample preparation methodologies, including off-line and on-line techniques are described in the next two chapters, with a comprehensive list of examples of pesticides and many metabolites, including the use of different GC-methods and LC-methods. The final chapter is devoted to the development of biological techniques, immunoassays and biosensors, for the trace determination of pesticides in water samples.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780444818423
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	12/15/1997
Series:	Techniques and Instrumentation in Analytical Chemistry , #19
Pages:	556
Product dimensions:	1.25(w) x 6.14(h) x 9.21(d)

About the Author

Prof. dr. Barcelo Damia, Director of the Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA) and Professor at the Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA), Barcelona, Spain. His expertise is in water quality assessment and management, fate, risk and removal of emerging contaminants in wastewater treatment plants and analysis, fate and risk of emerging contaminants and nanomaterials in the aquatic environment. He published over 900 papers, 200 book chapters and has h index 91. He was a coordinator of several national and EU projects and at the moment he coordinates two EU projects: GLOBAQUA , on multiple stressors in the aquatic environment and SEA-on-a-CHIP, on the development of sensor technolgies for emerging contamaints in marine aquaculture. He is CoEditor in Chief of the journal Science of Total Environment and the book series Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry, both form Elsevier..

Table of Contents

1. Pesticides and their Degradation Products: Characteristics, Usage and Environmental Behaviour2. Quality Assurance Issues: Sampling, Storage and Interlaboratory Studies3. Chromatographic and Related Techniques for the Analysis and Detection of Pesticides4. Sample Handling Techniques (Extraction and Clean-up of Samples)5. On-Line Sample Handling Strategies6. Immunochemical Methods and Biosensors

Editorial Reviews

Written for analytical and environmental chemists, this volume covers a compilation of analytical methods for the monitoring of pesticides and their degradation in water. General aspects of pesticides like usage, physiochemical parameters, and occurrence in the environment are treated first. The rest of the book discusses methodologies such as: sampling from water matrices; stability methods of pesticides in water; chromatographic methods, including the recently developed electrophoresis, and GC-MS and LC-MS confirmatory analytical methods; and off-line and on line techniques of sample preparation, with a list of examples of pesticides and metabolites. The final chapter is devoted to the development of biological techniques, immunoassays, and biosensors, for the trace determination of pesticides in water samples. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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