Journal
ACCREDITATION AND QUALITY ASSURANCE
Volume 7, Issue 7, Pages 286-289Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00769-002-0476-9
Keywords
hydrocarbons; soil; IR spectrometry; gas chromatography; interlaboratory comparison
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Due to the utilisation of 1,1,2-trichlorotrifluoroethane (CFE) as extraction solvent the IR-spectrometric determination of total petrol hydrocarbon (TPH) in soil according to ISO/TR 11046 has been replaced by gas chromatography/flame ionisation detection (GC/FID) after extraction with a halogen-free solvent according to ISO/DIS 16703:2001. The results obtained with both methods by field laboratories in three proficiency testing (PT) rounds are compared. The consensus means obtained with GC/FID are typically 10%-20% (ranging between 0% and 25%) higher than those found with IR-spectroscopy. On the contrary, coefficients of variation (CV) are roughly double in case of GC/FID and are briefly discussed against the background of the Horwitz equation.
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