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SERDP and ESTCP Webinar Series Vapor Intrusion: Regulatory Update and Advances in Assessment Tools January 14, 2016 SERDP and ESTCP Webinar Series (#25) SERDP and ESTCP Webinar Series Welcome and Introductions Rula A. Deeb, Ph.D. Webinar


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SERDP and ESTCP Webinar Series

Vapor Intrusion: Regulatory Update and Advances in Assessment Tools

January 14, 2016

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SERDP and ESTCP Webinar Series

Welcome and Introductions

Rula A. Deeb, Ph.D. Webinar Coordinator

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Agenda

  • Webinar Logistics
  • Dr. Rula Deeb, Geosyntec Consultants

(5 minutes)

  • Overview of SERDP and ESTCP
  • Dr. Andrea Leeson, SERDP and ESTCP

(5 minutes)

  • Mass Flux Characterization for Vapor Intrusion Assessment
  • Dr. Helen Dawson, Geosyntec Consultants

(25 minutes + Q&A)

  • Passive Sampling for Vapor Intrusion
  • Dr. Todd McAlary, Geosyntec Consultants

(25 minutes + Q&A)

  • Final Q&A session

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SERDP and ESTCP Webinar Series

SERDP and ESTCP Overview

Andrea Leeson, Ph.D. Environmental Restoration Program Manager

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SERDP

  • Strategic Environmental Research and

Development Program

  • Established by Congress in FY 1991
  • DoD, DOE and EPA partnership
  • SERDP is a requirements driven program

which identifies high-priority environmental science and technology investment

  • pportunities that address DoD requirements
  • Advanced technology development to address

near term needs

  • Fundamental research to impact real world

environmental management

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ESTCP

  • Environmental Security Technology

Certification Program

  • Demonstrate innovative cost-effective

environmental and energy technologies

  • Capitalize on past investments
  • Transition technology out of the lab
  • Promote implementation
  • Facilitate regulatory acceptance

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Program Areas

  • 1. Energy and Water
  • 2. Environmental Restoration
  • 3. Munitions Response
  • 4. Resource Conservation and

Climate Change

  • 5. Weapons Systems and

Platforms

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Environmental Restoration

  • Major focus areas
  • Contaminated

groundwater

  • Contaminants on ranges
  • Contaminated sediments
  • Wastewater treatment
  • Risk assessment

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SERDP and ESTCP Webinar Series

DATE Topics

January 28, 2016 Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS): Analytical and Characterization Frontiers February 11, 2016 Chromate/Hazardous Material Free Coating Systems for Military Aircraft and Ground Support Equipment February 25, 2016 Munitions Response March 10, 2016 Fate, Transport and Effects of Insensitive Munitions March 24, 2016 Cadmium and Chromate Elimination Efforts: Implementation Plans and Strategic Roadmaps for Three DoD Depots April 7, 2016 Resource Conservation and Climate Change April 21, 2016 Long Term Monitoring Issues at Chlorinated Solvent Sites

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SERDP and ESTCP Webinar Series http://serdp-estcp.org/Tools-and- Training/Webinar-Series

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Mass Flux Characterization for Vapor Intrusion Assessment

Helen Dawson, Ph.D. Geosyntec Consultants

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Agenda

  • Vapor intrusion (VI) assessment

challenges

  • Recent US EPA VI guidance
  • Key impacts on VI assessment
  • Mass flux characterization ER-201503
  • Risk management

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VI Assessment Challenges

  • Technical
  • Temporal and spatial variability
  • Background sources
  • Preferential pathways
  • Regulatory
  • Non-residential settings
  • Short-term exposures

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US EPA Vapor Intrusion Guidance

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June 2015

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EPA VI Guide’s Key Recommendations

  • Use multiple lines of evidence
  • Increase VI pathway sampling
  • Evaluate non-residential settings
  • Consider influence of preferential

pathways

  • Consider background sources
  • Consider short-term exposures and effects

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Use Multiple Lines of Evidence

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Indoor air Subslab Soil gas Groundwater

2002 Draft VI Guidance 2015 Final VI Guidance

VI More Likely VI Less Likely

Geology Building Hydrology

Coarse- Grained, Vertically Uniform Media Horizontal and Laterally Extensive Fine- Grained Layers Low Moisture Content, Shallow Water Table Deep Water Table, High Moisture Content Cracked Slab, Sumps, Partial Slabs, Low Air Exchange Rate High Air Exchange Rate, Intact Slab High Source Conc., Highly Volatile Compounds Low Source Conc., Less Volatile Compounds

Conc. Weather

Heating Season, Falling Barometric Pressure, Strong Winds Increasing Barometric Pressure, Minimal Wind, Moderate Temperature

Multiple Lines of Evidence Generic Concept

Comprehensive Conceptual Site Model

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Increase VI Pathway Sampling

  • EPA recommends

increasing number and frequency of samples

  • Indoor air
  • Multiple sampling rounds
  • Sub-slab
  • Multiple samples per

building

  • Soil vapor
  • Multiple locations and

depths

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Temporal Variability

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SERDP and ESTCP Webinar Series (#25) TCE Regulatory Levels for Commercial/Industrial Scenarios

Evaluate Non-Residential Settings

  • EPA has authority to assess and mitigate VI

in non-residential settings

  • Wide range of promulgated/recommended

indoor air target concentrations

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1 10 100 1,000 10,000 100,000 1,000,000 OSHA PEL ACGIH TLV ARSDR MRL Acute ATSDR MRL Intermediate Region 9 Urgent RAL Region 9 Accelerated RAL USEPA RSL

537,000 54,000 11,000 540 24 8 3

TCE Concentration (ug/m3)

8 HR 8 HR

8 HR

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Consider Preferential Pathways

  • “Significant”

preferential pathways may impact overlying

  • r nearby buildings
  • Regulator requests

vapor sampling of sewer or storm drain conduits and bedding

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Consider Background Sources

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  • Ambient background
  • VOCs in urban air
  • Indoor sources
  • VOCs emitted from

consumer products and building materials

  • Difficult to assess

with conventional sampling methods

  • Often ignored

Source: Dawson and McAlary, 2009

Values in parentheses are reporting limits in µg/m3

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Consider Short-Term Exposures

  • Very low target levels for TCE
  • Difficult to assess short-term exposures

with conventional sampling methods

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Region or State Residential (µg/m3) Commercial (µg/m3) US EPA Region 9 (Accelerated / Urgent Response Levels 2 / 6 8 / 24 US EPA Region 10 (Removal Action Level) 2 8.8 Massachusetts (Imminent Hazard) 6 24 New Hampshire (Action Level) 2 8.8 New Jersey (Rapid Action Level) 4 18 California DTSC (Accelerated Response Action Level) 2 8

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Mass Flux as an Alternative?

  • MUCH less variability (3x, not 1000x)
  • Potential to provide RME indoor air

concentrations

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Image courtesy of ASU

Phase II: Force Under-Pressurization Conditions Fall (2012) Winter (2013) TCE Emission Rate [g/day] 780 810 840 870 900 930 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 Time [d]

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Mass Flux Characterization (ESTCP ER 201503)

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CIA QBPC

Z

CSS CSV CSSV, QSSV

Sub-Slab Flux Diffusive Flux Building Flux MF3 MF1 MF2

MF = - DeffABΔCSV/ΔZ MF2 = CIAQBPC MF3 = CSSV QSSV

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Demonstration/Validation Needed

  • Develop and compare alternative methods
  • Provide data to support regulatory

acceptance

  • Transfer technology to DOD and

contractors

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Demonstration Site 1

  • Site selected
  • TCE concentrations
  • Groundwater 6.6 to 120

µg/L

  • Indoor air 20 to 59 µg/m3

(pre-mitigation)

  • Sub-slab 86 to 29,019

µg/m3

  • Measured sub-slab

mass flux (ER-201322)

  • Planning field work for

2016/2017

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Building 200

Building 200, Raritan Arsenal, Edison, NJ

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Legend SSV Extraction Point (existing) Sub-slab Probe (existing) Proposed Soil Vapor Probe (5 ft deep) Proposed Multi-level Soil Vapor Probe (15 ft, 25ft) Groundwater Monitoring Well (location approximate)

MW-157 MW-153

2,200 ft2

Demonstration Site 1

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Legend SSV extraction point (existing) Sub-slab probe (existing) Proposed soil vapor probe (5 ft deep) Proposed multi-level soil vapor probe (12 ft, 19 ft) Groundwater monitoring well (location approximate)

MW-157 MW-153

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Sub-Slab TCE Mass Flux (MF3)

  • Building 200 – August 2015 mass flux

measurements from ESTCP ER-201322

  • Trichloroethene

29 Stack Concentration (µg/m3) Stack Velocity (ft/min) Stack Area (ft2) Flow Rate (cfm) Mass Removal Rate (g/day) Vent Pipe V-1 290 37 0.049 1.8 0.02 Vent Pipe V-2 190 35 0.049 1.7 0.01 Vent Pipe V-3 1000 31 0.049 1.5 0.06 Total 5.1 0.10

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Indoor Air Concentrations

  • Indoor air concentrations estimated from

MF3 similar to pre-mitigation (2005) indoor air concentrations (20 to 60 µg/m3)

  • Trichloroethene

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Source: ESTCP ER-201322

Building Footprint (ft2) Building Height (ft) Air Exchange Rate (/hr) Qbuild (scm/d) Indoor Air (µg/m3) 2200 10 0.18 2690 36 2200 10 0.45 6724 14 2200 10 1.26 18827 5

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Vadose Zone Mass Flux (MF1)

Estimated from Groundwater Concentration

  • Conditions
  • Groundwater 120 µg/L (max)
  • Depth to water 20 ft
  • Vadose zone soil sand
  • Calculated mass flux
  • Mass transport rate

~0.13 g/day

  • Similar to measured MF3

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 0.E+00 1.E+04 2.E+04 3.E+04 4.E+04 5.E+04 Depth (m) Soil Vapor Concentration (µg/m3)

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Application to VI Risk Management

  • Calculate indoor air RME concentration

from mass flux

IA-RME = MF / (Vbldg AER)

  • Calculate mass flux threshold from target

indoor air concentration

MFthreshold = IAtarget Vbldg AER

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Abbreviations

RME: Reasonable maximum exposure IA: Indoor air MF: Mass flux Vbldg: Building volume AER: Air exchange rate

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Conclusions

  • Mass flux characterization has potential to

improve VI assessment

  • Provide an alternative line of evidence
  • Address challenges due to temporal variability

and preferential pathways

  • Reduce timeframe for and increase confidence

in risk management decisions

  • Reduce VI assessment costs

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Related Efforts

  • ESTCP Project ER-201322
  • Demonstration/validation project
  • High volume sampling and vacuum testing of

the sub-slab (MF3) to optimize design and

  • peration of mitigation systems
  • Raritan Arsenal
  • Mass flux measurements in vent-pipes (MF3)

at the former Raritan Arsenal for about 6 years (Bertrand and McAlary, 2010)

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Acknowledgments

  • Collaborators
  • Bill Wertz, Todd McAlary, and Paul Nicholson,

Geosyntec Consultants, Inc.

  • Dan Carr, Sanborn Head and Associates
  • Kyle Gorder, Air Force
  • Kyle Kirchner, Navy
  • Paul Johnson, Colorado School of Mines

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For additional information, please visit

www.serdp-estcp.org/Program- Areas/Environmental-Restoration/Contaminated- Groundwater/Emerging-Issues/ER-201503

Speaker Contact Information hdawson@geosyntec.com; 202-753-5006

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SERDP and ESTCP Webinar Series

Q&A Session 1

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SERDP and ESTCP Webinar Series

Passive Sampling for Vapor Intrusion

Todd McAlary, Ph.D. Geosyntec Consultants

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Agenda

  • Rationale for demonstration/validation
  • Lab and field testing
  • Performance data
  • Regulatory acceptance
  • Applications

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Motivation and Objectives

  • Address temporal variability
  • Short duration time-weighted average samples are

more likely to result in false-positive or false negative conclusions

  • Assess conditions specific to vapor intrusion
  • Low target concentrations
  • Multiple media (indoor air, outdoor air, soil gas)
  • Support regulatory acceptance
  • Rigorous comparison to established methods

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  • 180
  • 120
  • 60

60 120 180 240

[ppbv] Time [d]

Hapsite Data TD Tube Data (4 h) IST Studies (manip) GSI Study (manip) August 2010 SS November 2010 SS December 2010 SS February 2011 SS January 2011 SS March 2011 SS

Radon Automated data acquisition SF6 release Manipulation Other SERDP/ ESTCP Projects

Indoor Air TCE Concentration [ppbv]

Temporal Variability

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  • EPA

Data courtesy of Paul Johnson, ASU

Radon analogy: a 90-day sample is a “short-term” sample

  • 180
  • 120
  • 60

60 120 180 240

Time [d]

0.01 0.1 1 10 100

Radon SF6 release Automated data acquisition

Manipulation Other SERDP/ ESTCP Projects Hapsite data TD Tube data (4 h) IST studies (manip) GSI study (manip) August 2010 SS Nov 2010 SS Dec 2010 SS Feb 2011 SS Jan 2011 SS Mar 2011 SS

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Passive Samplers Tested

  • Differences
  • Size, uptake rates,

sorbents, medium of uptake, method of analysis

  • Mass (M) and time (t)

are measured

  • accurately. Key is to

know the uptake rate (UR)

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Radiello™ 3M OVM 3500 Waterloo Membrane Sampler™ ATD Tubes

C 0 = M UR t

Equivalent Sample Volume

SKC Ultra II

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Passive Sampler Calibration

  • Tested 5 samplers

in triplicate and 10 compounds

  • High, medium and

low

  • Concentration
  • Face velocity
  • Temperature
  • Relative humidity
  • Duration
  • 24 chambers x

5 samplers x 3 replicates x 10 chemicals = 3600 data points

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Center-Point Results

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Conditions Duration = 4 days Velocity = 0.23 m/s Temperature = 22 oC Concentration = 50 ppb Humidity = 63%

+45%

  • 45%

+25%

  • 25%

Note: Scales are linear

TCE PCE

Concentration (ppbv) Concentration (ppbv)

Active TO-17 ATD Tenax WMS Radiello SKC Ultra ATD Carbopack Active TO-17 ATD Tenax WMS Radiello SKC Ultra ATD Carbopack

70 60 50 40 30 20 10 70 60 50 40 30 20 10

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Accuracy

Mostly met the performance criteria

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Mean C/Co (passive/active) 1,1,1-trichloroethane 0.72 0.67 1.15 0.95 0.8 0.79 1,2,4-trimethylbenzene 0.73 0.69 0.54 1.13 0.69 0.89 1,2-dichloroethane 0.6 0.67 0.86 0.83 0.75 0.87 Benzene 1.71 1.07 0.99 0.9 0.95 0.72 Carbon tetrachloride 0.82 0.67 1.18 0.81 0.55 0.98 Hexane 1.12 0.55 1.15 0.8 0.7 0.86 2-butanone (MEK) 0.21 1 1.12 0.62 0.46 1.33 Naphthalene 0.9 0.98 0.17 2.26 0.36 0.82 Tetrachloroethene 1.15 0.85 0.72 1.02 0.98 0.94 Trichloroethene 0.91 0.62 0.8 0.91 0.87 0.91 Active/ Calculated ATD: Carbopack B ATD: Tenax WMS Radiello SKC Mean C/Co is the mean of 24 passive/active concentration ratios (one for each chamber Bold: average C/Co values of 0.63 to 1.58, which meet the success criterion: RPD < +/- Active ATD tube data were compared to concentrations calculated from mass flow

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Inter-Chamber Precision

Almost all met the performance criteria

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Mean intra-chamber COV ATD: Carbopack B ATD: Tenax WMS Radiello SKC Active ATD/ Calculated 1,1,1-trichloroethane 7% 3% 7% 5% 14% 13% 1,2,4-trimethylbenzene 5% 5% 7% 4% 22% 7% 1,2-dichloroethane 8% 3% 6% 4% 12% 9% Benzene 5% 6% 12% 3% 10% 6% Carbon tetrachloride 4% 6% 8% 4% 8% 12% Hexane 7% 2% 7% 7% 16% 7% 2-butanone (MEK) 47% 5% 13% 11% 23% 15% Naphthalene 6% 12% 7% 6% 16% 7% Tetrachloroethene 2% 3% 6% 3% 6% 5% Trichloroethene 3% 2% 5% 3% 16% 5% Mean intra-chamber COV is the average of 24 COV values, from three replicates in each Bold: COV value meets the success criterion: < 30%

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Intra-Chamber Precision

Variability increased for varied conditions

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1,1,1-trichloroethane 24% 27% 26% 35% 51% 18% 1,2,4-trimethylbenzene 12% 16% 42% 25% 55% 17% 1,2-dichloroethane 31% 32% 35% 28% 61% 23% Benzene 88% 69% 116% 70% 65% 19% Carbon tetrachloride 25% 26% 31% 28% 59% 19% Hexane 37% 45% 56% 28% 39% 27% 2-butanone (MEK) 25% 31% 26% 16% 40% 19% Naphthalene 18% 25% 128% 46% 58% 17% Tetrachloroethene 13% 14% 34% 27% 26% 18% Trichloroethene 11% 17% 34% 30% 51% 16% SKC Inter-chamber COV is the COV of 24 average C/Co values, one from each chamber test Bold: COV value meets the success criterion: < 30% Active ATD/ Calculated Mean inter-chamber COV ATD: Carbopack B ATD: Tenax WMS Radiello

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High Concentration Lab Tests

  • 1, 10 and 100 ppmv
  • 80% humidity, 20oC
  • 30 minute samples
  • Very low velocity

(100 mL/min)

  • “Zero” velocity

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High Concentration Test Results

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0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 WMS ATD Radiello 3M OVM SKC

C/Co Sampler Type

Normalized Concentrations (10 ppm Test)

MEK n-Hexane 12DCA 111TCA Benzene CT TCE PCE 124TMB +/- 25%

+25%

  • 25%
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Field Testing

50 Soil gas sampling Indoor air sampling Sub-slab sampling Outdoor air sampling

Support by Ignacio Rivera and Bart Chadwick of SPAWAR

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Indoor Air VOCs at Cherry Point

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Note: Excludes compounds for which equivalent sample volume was greater than Safe Sample Volume

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Notes: Probes to 3-4 feet deep, exposure durations of 20, 40 and 60 minutes Strong correlations, regression slopes all near 1.0

Passive Sampler vs. Summa Canister

Summa Canister Concentration (µg/m3) Passive Sampler Concentration (µg/m3) 10000 1000 100 1010 100 1000 10000

Soil Vapor Sampling, NAS JAX

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Passive Sub-Slab, NAS JAX

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Note: Limited to 1-inch diameter or less – Low-uptake rate samplers

Passive Sampler vs. Summa Canister

Summa Canister Concentration (µg/m3) Passive Sampler Concentration (µg/m3) 100,000 10,000 1000 100 100 1000 10,000 100,000

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Temporary Passive – NAS JAX

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0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 cDCE tDCE PCE TCE C/Co Compound

WMS Samples vs Summa Canisters

Exposure 1.7hr Exposure 3.2 Exposure 8.5hr Exposure 15.5hr Exposure 18.0hr Exposure 18.9hr +/- 25%

+25%

  • 25%
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OVM

Passive and Active Sampler Correlation

  • Strong

correlation to conventional samples over 6+ orders of magnitude

  • Quantitative

results for soil vapor (a breakthrough)

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Concentration in Summa Canister (µg/m3) Radiello Waterloo Membrane Sampler ATD Passive Sampler Concentration (µg/m3)

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Applications

Indoor air Soil gas Flux chambers Sub-slab soil gas Vent-pipes Outdoor air 56

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Quality Considerations

  • Routine QA/QC, trip blanks and media blanks
  • Select sorbent for to match target compounds
  • Retention (safe sample volume > product of uptake

rate and sample duration)

  • Recovery (same as EPA Method TO-17)
  • Select sample duration to achieve reporting limits

lower than screening level

  • Select a sampler with an uptake rate low enough

to avoid starvation, but high enough to achieve reporting limits below screening levels

  • Field calibration is always an option

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Shoebox or Cargo Van?

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Conclusions

  • Benefits
  • Simpler protocols – less operator error
  • Easier to ship, handle and use – lower overall cost
  • Integrate over time to manage temporal variability
  • Lower reporting limits with no premium cost
  • Precision and accuracy mostly comparable to active

samplers

  • 30-year history in industrial hygiene
  • Limitations
  • Retention, starvation, calibration, contamination
  • All avoidable through careful sampler/sorbent selection,

QA/QC

  • Well-documented to support regulatory acceptance

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Acknowledgments

  • Funding gratefully acknowledged
  • ESTCP ER0830
  • U.S. Navy Environmental Sustainability Development to

Integration (NESDI) Program

  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
  • Ontario Ministry of the Environment
  • Anadarko Petroleum Corporation
  • Geosyntec Consultants, Inc.
  • Collaborators
  • Tadeusz Gorecki, University of Waterloo; Hester Groenevelt,

Geosyntec; Suresh Seethapathy, formerly of U of Waterloo; Paolo Sacco, Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri; Derrick Crump, Cranfield U; Michael Tuday, formerly of CAS; Brian Shumaker, USEPA; Heidi Hayes, Eurofins/Air Toxics; Paul Johnson, Colorado School

  • f Mines

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For additional information, please visit

www.serdp-estcp.org/Program-Areas/Environmental- Restoration/Contaminated-Groundwater/Emerging- Issues/ER-200830

Speaker Contact Information tmcalary@geosyntec.com; 905-339-7066

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SERDP and ESTCP Webinar Series

Q&A Session 2

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SERDP and ESTCP Webinar Series

The next webinar is on January 28, 2016

“Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS): Analytical and Characterization Frontiers”

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