The paper reviews the subject literature concerning the analytical instruments routinely used for monitoring volatile organic compounds in atmospheric air. The analyzers are classified as stationary or mobile according to their ease of transport. Stationary DOAS (Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy) analyzer is characterized, as are MIMS (Membrane Introduction Mass Spectrometry), MESI (Membrane Extraction with Sorbent Interface), APCI-MS2 and LPCI-MS2 (Ionization at atmospheric pressure / low pressure coupled with tandem mass spectrometry) instruments into which air samples can be injected directly. Mobile instruments, such as automatic BTEX (benzene, toluene, ethylobenzene, xylens) analyzers, portable mass spectrometers and the Mobile Monitoring System are also described.
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- Category
- Publikacja w czasopiśmie
- Type
- artykuł w czasopiśmie wyróżnionym w JCR
- Language
- angielski
- Publication year
- 2010
