Page 10 - Solutions for Industrial Process Water

Volatile and Semi-volatile Organic

Compounds

Volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds (VOCs and SVOCs) can be incorporated into industrial water streams.
Many VOCs and SVOCs demonstrate negative health effects and are major components of air pollution, particularly
around industrial facilities. Gas chromatography with mass spectrometry (GC-MS) is a powerful tool that enables fast,
targeted analyses for VOCs and SVOCs in water and air, for example, analysis of purgeable organic compounds using
EPA Method 624.

Shimadzu offers a comprehensive EPA Method 624/8260 package that includes standards, columns, sample vials
and other consumable items, method conditions, and documentation to achieve and maintain the quality assurance
criteria outlined in EPA method 624 and 8260.

Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer
GCMS-QP2020 NX

The GCMS-QP2020 NX is Shimadzu’s versatile single-quadrupole
GCMS, capable of reliable, routine analysis of water samples.

• High-performance ion source and ion optics for maximum
sensitivity and ion transport
• High-efficiency turbomolecular pump to exhaust any carrier
gas, including helium, hydrogen, nitrogen, and argon
• Scan speeds of up to 20,000 µ/sec across all masses using
patented Advance Scanning Speed Protocol™ functionality

(x1,000,000)
TIC (1.00)
1.50 Surrogate Standard Recoveries Over 12 Hours
1.4
1.25
1.3
1.00 1.2 120%
Surrogate Recovery 1
0.75 1.1
0.50
0.25 0.9
1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0 7.0 8.0 9.0 10.0 11.0 12.0 13.0 14.0 15.0 16.0 17.0 0.8
80%
Total Ion Chromatogram (TIC) for 50 µg/L compounds for EPA 0.7
Method 624.1. 0.6
0 5 10 15 20 25
Run Number
Pentafluorobenzene Fluorobenzene 4-Bromofluorobenzene

Surrogate standard recoveries for EPA Method 624 over a
12 hour period.

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