Handbook of Air Toxics: Sampling, Analysis, and Properties

The Handbook of Air Toxics compiles, defines, & clarifies several methods & concepts of airborne toxic substances found in the environment. This comprehensive reference helps regulators, consultants, & other environmental professionals meet the challenges of sampling & analysis, emissions reductions, & health & safety issues related to human exposure. It is an important reference addressing the ongoing concern about the consequences of air pollution, & the implementation & modification of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Clean Air Act. Some of the methods described in the Handbook of Air Toxics include fluorescence, thermal desorption, selected ion monitoring, ion chromatography, light microscopy, specific electrode analysis, titration, colorimetry, atomic absorption, & spectrophotometry. It also covers the use of isokinetic sampling trains, midget impingers, carbon molecular sieves, & sampling canisters in the analysis of air toxics. The Handbook also contains recommendations from the EPA for analytical methods for those air toxics where methods do not already exist & provides advance information on future method development by the EPA.