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Emissions and Odours

from Materials - 2011

Simplifying Chemical Emission Testing for Consumer Product Manufacturers

an Aid to Compliance and Product Innovation

Moritz Hebestreit, PhD

Applications Chemist

Agilent Technologies

Europe, Middle East, Africa and India

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• Tube sampling of VOC emissions/profiles from materials

• Key example of ‘Green Chemistry’ legislation = REACH: Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and restriction of CHemical Substances

• VOC emission testing now a mandatory part of CE-marking for CONSTRUCTION PRODUCTS

• International Green building codes driving US building regulations

MATERIALS EMISSIONS

Construction Product

Directive/Regulation

(CPD/CPR)

New US building

codes

Chinese ‘REACH’

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New Standards in Indoor air monitoring

New EU Regulation – Challenge and Opportunities

• VOC emission testing will be a mandatory part of CE-marking for CONSTRUCTION

PRODUCTS

• Reference & screening methods for VOC emission testing use TD-GC/MS

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Material Emission Testing with TD GC/MS

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New technologies essential to

meet higher productivity needs but…

• Requires time for startup

• Requires high investigation costs

• May generate questionable results

Agilent Application Kits:

Get on a fast track to higher productivity

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No More Struggle for Developing Methods

Sample

ready

Agilent develops method

Order kit

Checkout Familiarization Refine

method Order

• Universal methods to startup application , meeting most testing needs!

• Application kits are flexible, can be adapted to customer needs

Method development Checkout Familiarization Order

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TD GC/MS Solution with Materials Emissions Application Kit

Recommended Hardware with system configurator

• Single or automated tube TD

• GCMS

• DRS software with RTL Library of VOCs Relevant to Materials Emissions

• CFT e.g. for split detection or backflush (optional)

Application Kit comprising:

• Column, Analytical method, Check Standard, Materials Emissions library, TD Trap, Sorbent tubes

Optional sampling accessories:

• Microchamber for secondary/screening methods

Optional Installation includes:

• system setup with column and TD trap, analytical method setup, run check standard with library search

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Main Materials Emissions Application Kit selection: Thermal Desorption system

UNITY 2™ A universal platform for

single tube thermal

desorption

TD-100™ Automated TD system for

up to 100 RFID-tagged or

untagged tubes

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Patented thermal desorption

valve enabling

Quantitative re-collection of

every sample and

compatible with every TD

application World’s most efficient

electrically-cooled &

back-flushed focusing

trap

World #1 TD technology

TubeTAG™

Electronic (RFID) labels

for TD tubes

DiffLok™ caps for

trouble-free TD

automation

Unique Features inside Unity 2 and TD100

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• Simpler/quicker emission screening for inhouse industrial applications: routine QC, R&D, etc.

• Surface-only or bulk emissions can be assessed

• 4 or 6 samples/hour

• Sorbent tubes or DNPH cartridges

Secondary emission screening methods Micro-Chamber/Thermal Extractor™(µ-CTE™)*

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Detector Splitting

Solvent Bypass

Heart Cutting (Deans Switch)

Column Change without Vent

Modulation (GCXGC)

Backflush

Further application kit option: Capillary Flow Technology

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Deconvolution Reporting Software From here

Chromatogram and following report from application note “Screening for 171 Volatile Organic Air Pollutants Using

GC/MS with Deconvolution Reporting Software and a New Indoor Air Toxics Library” 5989-5435

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Deconvolution Reporting Software to here within 2 - 3 min

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DRS Report from 3 Integrated Processes

Total ion chromatogram

Combined quantitative and qualitative

HTML summary report

Quant Results

Targets are identified by

comparison to locked R.T.s

and 3 qualifier ion ratios,

then quantified using target

ion area vs ISTD cal table

Deconvoluted Target

spectra confirmed by

AMDIS, searched against

NIST08 MS database

Confirmed NIST08 hits

AMDIS deconvolutes

component spectra and

searches target MS database

using locked RT as a qualifier

Confirmed AMDIS hits

AMDIS Quant Result

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What makes Agilent the preferred solution for

material emission testing?

Sampling Data

analysis

Thermal

desorption GC/MS

Cryogen-free

Universal: C2 to C40 +

reactive compounds

Repeat analysis World’s best /

most robust

GC/MS

DRS simplifies

data processing

100 tubes

TubeTAG: enhanced

QA of tubes

Complete system

support

Micro-

chamber

Tubes

Check standard

Materials

Emissions library

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Helpful Information

TD brochure 5990-6208EN

Materials Emissions application compendium 5990-7712EN

Application kit brochure – soon!

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Thank you for your attention!

Questions?

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