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 POLYNUCLEAR AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS by GC: METHOD 5515, Issue 2, dated 15 August 1994 - Page 5 of 7

EVALUATION OF METHOD: Owing to large interferences that occured while utilizing NIOSH Method P&CAM 206 for samples collected during asphalt roofing operations, the gas chromatographic capillary column method was developed. The GC method has been evaluated using several hundred field filter and sorbent tube sampling trains. To date, no statistical studies have been initiated. Overall, standard spiked filters and sorbent tubes have yielded reproducible measurement calibration graphs. The method has been applied to the following sources with semi-quantitative results using three separate particulate extraction solvents (benzene, cyclohexane, acetonitrile): aluminum reduction facilities, asphalt fume, coal gasification plants, coal liquefaction plants, coal tar pitch, coke oven emissions, creosote treatment facilities, diesel exhaust, graphite electrode manufacturing, petroleum pitch, and roofing tearoff operations. REFERENCES: [1] UBTL, Inc., NIOSH Sequence #4220-O (NIOSH, unpublished, August 10, 1984). [2] NIOSH Manual of Analytical Methods, 2nd ed., Vol. 1, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Publ. (NIOSH) 77-157-A (1977). [3] Breuer, G. M. Anal. Lett., 17 (A11), 1293-1306 (1984). [4] Zweidinger, R. B., S. B. Tejada, D. Dropkins, J. Huisingh, and L. Claxton. "Characterization of Extractable Organics in Diesel Exhaust Particulate," paper presented at Symposium on Diesel Particulate Emissions Measurement Characterization, Ann Arbor, MI (1978). [5] Swarin, S. J. and R. L. Williams. "Liquid Chromatographic Determination of Benzo[a]pyrene in Diesel Exhaust Particulate: Verification of the Collection and Analytical Methods," Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Physical and Biological Effects, Bjorseth, A. and Dennis, Eds., Battelle Press, pp. 771-790 (1980). [6] Wise, S. A., et al. "Analytical Methods for the Determination of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons on Air Particulate Matter," Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Physical and Biological Chemistry , Cooke, Dennis and Fisher, Eds., Battelle Press, pp. 919-929 (1982). [7] Novotny, M., M. L. Lee and K. D. Bartle. J. Chromatog. Sci., 12, 606-612 (1974). [8] Backup Data Report for Method 5506, Analytical Report for NIOSH Sequence 4170 (NIOSH, DPSE, MRSB, unpublished, March 16, 1984). [9] Studt., P., Liebigs Ann. Chem., 528 (1978). [10] Clar, E. Polycyclic Hydrocarbons, Academic Press (1964). [11] Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 62nd ed., CRC Press (1982). [12] Beilstein 5 (1), 344.

METHOD REVISED BY: B.R. Belinky, NIOSH/DPSE, and E.J. Slick; J.C. Holt, D.E. Bilak, and J.B. Perkins, DataChem Laboratories, Inc., Salt Lake City, UT.

NIOSH Manual of Analytical Methods (NMAM), Fourth Edition, 8/15/94