Field Screening Europe 2001: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Strategies and Techniques for the Investigation and Monitoring of Contaminated Sites

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
New Sampling/Sample Preparation Strategies for Rapid Screening....Pages 3-7
On Site Assessment of Contaminated Sites: Application of Sensors for On-Site Instrumentation....Pages 9-13
Field Screening and Soil—Groundwater Path Assessment According to the Ordinance on Soil Protection and Contaminated Sites (Bundesbodenschutz- und Altlastenverordnung, BBodSchV)....Pages 15-20
A Study on the Interdependence Between Human Activities and Soil Quality on the Nearby Zone of the Danube River....Pages 21-26
On-Site Assessment of Contaminated Sites: Development of Field Screening Instruments....Pages 27-32
Evaluation of Selected Methods of on Site Analysis....Pages 33-38
Manual for the Use of on Site Analytical Systems on Contaminated Sites....Pages 39-44
Front Matter....Pages 45-45
Typical Problems of Monitoring Soil and Groundwater....Pages 47-52
Hydrogeophysical Site Characterization — Problems and New Technologies....Pages 53-58
Simulation of Sampling of Heterogeneous Contaminated Soils....Pages 59-64
Monitoring the Soil System as a Reactor Chamber....Pages 65-70
Spatial In Situ Delineation of Soil and Groundwater Contamination with Environmental CPT....Pages 71-78
Base Maps for the Estimation of Diffuse Soil Pollution in Urban Areas....Pages 79-84
Development of Selective Pore Pressure Transducers to Measure In Situ Pc-S Curves During Model Tests....Pages 85-90
Site Contamination Fast Delineation and Screening Using the Membrane Interface Probe....Pages 91-98
Field Screening of Transport Characteristics in Unsaturated Fractured Porous Rock by Gas Tracer Testing....Pages 99-106
The Camera Cone as an Effective Site Screening Tool....Pages 107-111
Flexible and Dynamic Site Investigation....Pages 113-117
Soil-Gas Investigations for the Deliniation of VOC Contaminations in the Subsurface....Pages 119-124
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
Mobile Odor Testers for Soils or Granular Materials....Pages 127-132
Front Matter....Pages 125-125
On Site Analysis Using Ion Mobility Spectrometry with Non-Radioactive Ionization Sources....Pages 133-138
A Dissolved Hydrogen Analyzer and a Bioavailable Ferric Iron Assay for Bioremediation Analysis....Pages 139-144
Development and Field Test of a New Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF) Spectrometer for in Situ Investigation of Oil-Contaminated Soils....Pages 145-150
Development of an Optical Sensor for BTEX and Chlorinated Solvents....Pages 151-155
Rapid Screening of Organic Pollutants in Rubble with an Electronic Nose Based on a Metal Oxide Gas Sensor Microarray....Pages 157-162
Phytoindication in Field Screening of Contaminated Sites....Pages 163-167
Time Resolved Excitation Emission (TEE) Spectra: A New Screening Tool Based on Multidimensional Fluorescence Spectroscopy....Pages 169-174
Screening Analysis of Soil, Water and Waste with X-Ray Fluorescence Using Matrix Independent Calibration Techniques....Pages 175-180
Immediate Measurement of Hydrocarbon Content by NIR-Spectroscopy in Natural Soil and Soil Substitutes....Pages 181-185
Gasdialytic Immersion Probes with Integrated Sample Conditioning and in Situ Calibration....Pages 187-192
The Use of UV Spectrophotometry for Rapid Site Organic Pollution Diagnosis....Pages 193-198
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Methods and Difficulties of Sampling Stygofauna — An Overview....Pages 201-205
Tree Coring as a Potential Site Characterization Tool of Shallow Groundwater Contamination....Pages 207-211
Case Study: Using Immunoassay Technology and a Dynamic Work Plan to Cost Effectively Achieve Site Cleanup and Statistical Certainty in Closure....Pages 213-219
Methods for Biological Quality Assessment of the River Rhine....Pages 221-226
Fast on Site Analysis with Low Cost Methods....Pages 227-232
Immunological Detection of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Airborne Aerosols....Pages 233-238
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
An Improved Automatic Analyzer for Organic Compounds in Water Based on Headspace Solid Phase Microextraction (SPME) Coupled to Gas Chromatography....Pages 241-246
Location of Hydrocarbon Leakage by Combining SPME in Optical Fibers and OTDR Techniques....Pages 247-252
Simple Sample Preparation Techniques for Field GC/MS-Analysis....Pages 253-258
Front Matter....Pages 239-239
Calibration and Field Validation of SPME Fibres as Passive Air Samplers for Chlorinated Semivolatile Organic Compounds....Pages 259-264
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
Geoelectric and Electromagnetic Measurements on a Domestic Waste Site....Pages 267-271
Influence of the Mineralogical Composition of Contaminated Soils, Sediments and Technical Substrates on the Elution-and Extraction Behaviour of Heavy Metals and PAH....Pages 273-276
Sample Probe with Integrated Elution Chamber....Pages 277-280
Influence of Soil Properties on Migration of Poly-Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH) and Visualisation....Pages 281-284
Immunochemical Screening for Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Soil....Pages 285-288
A Chemiluminescence Flow Sensor for the Selective Detection of Hydrogen Peroxide....Pages 289-292
Non-Conventional Field Screening Methods by Application of Geophysical Techniques to Monitor Natural Attenuation Processes at Contaminated Sites....Pages 293-298
 In Situ Analysis of Petroleum Hydrocarbons in Soils by a Combination of Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF) Spectroscopy with Cone Penetration Tests (CPT)....Pages 299-302
Methods for Determining Soil Moisture with Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)....Pages 303-308
A Novel and Economic Sensor System for Monitoring of Ammonia....Pages 309-312
Co-Operation Project “Fast on Site Analysis by Using Low Cost Methods”....Pages 313-315
 In Situ Measurement of Aromatic Contaminants in Bore Holes by UV/VIS Spectrometry....Pages 317-320
Rapid Leaching Procedures — Possibilities and Limits....Pages 321-325
Exploration of Preferential Transport Paths Using Geoelectrical Salt Tracer Tests....Pages 327-330
Description of the Air and Soil Contamination Level by Means of Higher Zootestors (Vertebrata) in the Industrial Regions....Pages 331-335
A Low Cost TLC Method for the Detection of PAH in Solids under Field Conditions....Pages 337-341
Measurement and Inversion of Dielectric Properties of Diesel-Contaminated Sand....Pages 343-347
Compact Devices and Microsystems for the Spectroscopic on Site Environmental Analytics — An Overview....Pages 349-352
Statistical Evaluation and QS Measures for on Site Analytics....Pages 353-356
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
ED-XRF as Field Analytical Technique: Comparison of Various Systems Based on a Case Study....Pages 357-361
NMS, Nitrate Monitoring System....Pages 363-366
Back Matter....Pages 367-368