Optimising solid phase extraction of priority pollutants - SPE training courses for handling water, soil and food samples to reduce laboratory costs and increase efficiency
Analytik provide training courses in solid phase extraction techniques for dealing with samples from a wide variety of environmental sources.
These include the basics of SPE before moving on to deal with specifics of extracting priority pollutants from water soil and food.
Courses can be tailored to suit individual requirements of the client.
A course section relating to water samples examines how to extract a wide range of pesticides, herbicides, phenols and polyaromatic hydrocarbons from drinking, surface and waste water.
Courses also take an in depth look at steps and precautions for extracting suites of pollutants ranging from extreme water solubility to complete insolubility within the same sample.
The aims being to maximise recoveries while eliminating the sample matrix.
Soil and food are possibly the hardest sample matrix from which to extract compounds and courses address these difficulties using a number of practical solutions, demonstrating how the SPE procedure can be harmonised to the analytical process.
Many older methods for the aforementioned samples use time consuming and cumbersome liquid/liquid extraction methods.
However, learning to replace these older and more solvent intensive methods with SPE procedures, course attendees can increase sample throughput and thus laboratory efficiency.
In addition, laboratory costs of solvent purchase and disposal can be significantly reduced, solvent disposal generally being estimated to be at least three times more expensive than its initial purchase.
