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10 - Civilian and military environmental contamination studies using LIBS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 August 2009

By
J. P. Singh ,
F. Y. Yueh ,
V. N. Rai ,
R. Harmon ,
S. Beaton ,
P. French ,
F. C. DeLucia ,
B. Peterson ,
K. L. McNesby  and
A. W. Miziolek
Edited by
Andrzej W. Miziolek ,
Vincenzo Palleschi  and
Israel Schechter
J. P. Singh
Affiliation:
Diagnostics Instrumentation and Analysis Laboratory (DIAL), Mississippi State University, USA
F. Y. Yueh
Affiliation:
Diagnostics Instrumentation and Analysis Laboratory (DIAL), Mississippi State University, USA
V. N. Rai
Affiliation:
Diagnostics Instrumentation and Analysis Laboratory (DIAL), Mississippi State University, USA
R. Harmon
Affiliation:
US Army Research Laboratory, Research Triangle Park, USA
S. Beaton
Affiliation:
ADA Technologies, Inc., USA
P. French
Affiliation:
ADA Technologies, Inc., USA
F. C. DeLucia
Affiliation:
US Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, USA
B. Peterson
Affiliation:
US Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, USA
K. L. McNesby
Affiliation:
US Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, USA
A. W. Miziolek
Affiliation:
US Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, USA
Andrzej W. Miziolek
Affiliation:
U.S. Army Research Laboratory, USA
Vincenzo Palleschi
Affiliation:
Istituto per I Processi Chimico-Fisici, Italy
Israel Schechter
Affiliation:
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
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Summary

Introduction

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) has demonstrated its capability in quantitative determination of elemental composition in various samples in laboratories for decades. Recently, the interest in applying LIBS to detect various hazardous materials in the environment has grown rapidly. This chapter reviews some recent work related to environmental contamination studies using LIBS. Two portable LIBS instruments developed for field application are described in this chapter. The first instrument has been used by the US Army Research Laboratory to analyze the contaminated soil from Army sites and also for other geological applications. The other system was used by Mississippi State University to detect the resources conservation and recovery act (RCRA) metals in the off-gas of industrial plants and in liquids. The practical problems with LIBS application in environmental application such as calibration and sensitivity are also discussed in this chapter. The concept of using a new generation of broadband spectrometers to improve LIBS' capability in monitoring multiple emission lines of the same element to improve the detection limit and other signal enhancement techniques is addressed. The initial result of LIBS application in environmental problems is encouraging. We believe that the performance of LIBS in environmental application will continuously improve with the commercial development of various components in LIBS detection system.

LIBS is a chemical sensor technology with a capability for real-time in situ analysis that was first demonstrated in the laboratory over two decades ago and is now at the threshold of widespread commercialization.

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Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy , pp. 368 - 399
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2006

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