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Alternative Sampling Device for the Carbon Adsorption Method
Author(s) -
Taylor Floyd B.,
Smith Harry F.,
Coene Ronald F.
Publication year - 1964
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1964.tb01269.x
Subject(s) - sampling (signal processing) , adsorption , carbon fibers , chloroform , work (physics) , sample (material) , computer science , chemistry , engineering , chromatography , algorithm , mechanical engineering , organic chemistry , telecommunications , detector , composite number
Carbon‐chloroform extracts (CCE) were one of the items to be limited for the first time in the 1962 U.S. Public Health Service Drinking Water Standards. The carbon‐chloroform extracts result from completion of the carbon adsorption method (CAM) developed by Middleton and others. The inclusion of CCE in the 1962 standards was proposed by the advisory committee that formulated the standards. In 1962, work was begun on an alternative sampling procedure that proved to be more convenient and less costly. A series of CCE determinations showed that analytic results from the new sampling procedure were consistent with those from the old. As the new method is easier to adopt and less expensive in both cost of equipment and operation, and is consistent in results obtained, it is offered as an alternative to the part of the present procedure that deals with sample collection using a glass cylinder. The other parts of the CAM were not reviewed in detail and are unchanged.