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Thirty-fourth ORNL/DOE Conference on Analytical Chemistry in Energy Technology
Gatlinburg, Tennessee  October 5-7, 1993.

Arrangements: A. L. Harrod, J. S. Lee, C. C. Overbey
                        S. D. Wright, S. L. Lantz, L. K. Plemons

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Table of Contents

9:30

The Development and application of Planning Processes to meet environmental restoration and waste management data needs.

6

9:50

DOE’s quality assessment program for environmental restoration and waste management (EM) sampling and analysis activities

7

10:40

Fifty Years of continuous improvement. (What has DOE done for analytical chemistry?)

9

11:00

Titrimetry and spectrophotometry: from colors to computers.

10

11:20

Evolution of Plutonium measurements at lanl.

11

11:40

From Hevesey to the advanced neutron source – the past and final frontier of neutron activation analyses.

12

1:30

Prediction of chemical properties of organic compounds from Molecular structure.

14

1:50

The Nist Consortium on Automated analytical laboratory systems.

15

2:10

Status of the contaminant analysis automation (CAA) Program.

16

2:30

From liquid sample to printed report: A fully automated plutonium analyzer.

17

3:20

Automated test apparatus for the modeling of VOC transport in lab-scale simulated waste Drums

18

3:40

Multi-media analytical procedures, sound, graphics, video clips in procedures.

19

 4:00

Implementation of a laboratory information management system for environmental regulatory driven analyses.

20

Wednesday, AM October 6, 1993 - Electroscopy ionization – Mass Spectrometry

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8:30

An overview of electroscopy ionization-mass spectroscopy.

22

9:10

The roles of colvation and surface chemistry in ion desorption.

24

10:10

Probing covalent protein adducts by means of electrospray

 

10:40

High resolution precision mass measurements of biopolymers by electrospray ionization Fourier transform iron cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry.

26

11:10

Chemical derivatization for selective detection by electroscopy mass spectrometry

27

Wednesday, PM:  Detection and Monitoring of Airborne Toxics

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1:30

Overview of optical remote sensing for detection of air toxics.

28

1:50

Air Issues during site remediations: Regulatory considerations and case study

29

2:10

Development of analytical methods for toxic byproducts in gases from soil remediation systems.

30

2:30

Air Quality monitoring by Membrane sampling ion trap mass spectrometry.

31

2:50

Evaluation of FTIR spectroscopy for the analysis of waste drum headspace.

32

3:10

Is the sampling of drum headspace VOCs aviable waste characterization tool?

33

Wednesday PM:  Laboratory management and quality assurance

35

1:30

Performance Avaluation programs alternatives based on user needs.

35

1:50

A quality assessment program as a tool for improving analytical laboratory performance.

37

2:10

TQM success in the analytical laboratory.

39

2:30

Uncertainty in analytical measurements.

40

2:50

Validation of NAA of environmental samples

41

3:10

Quality assurance in environmental management.

42

 

Microwave sample preparation for cold vapor atomic absorption spectrosmetry

48

 

Experimental and theoretical relative ion yields for glow discharge Mass Spectrometry.

49

 

Secondary ion and ms/ms images of biological samples.

54

 

The determination of tnt and tnt degradation products in soil by HPLC and other analytical methods.

55

Wednesday PM: Interactive Analytical Seminars

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3:40-5:00

Nuclear waste analytical reound robins 1-6: Lessions learned.

44

 

Calibration and use of Cf shufflers for analyzing waste drums.

46

 

Estimating analytical laboratory capacity.

47

 

Analysis of fluoride in molten salt mixtures using microwave digestion.

51

 

Direct analysis of oils by solution residue glow discharge mass spectrometry

52

 

Determination of relative sensitivity factors for the quantitative analyses of clays by glow discharge mass spectrometry.

53

 

Detection of cyclohexylamine on laboratory and environmental surfaces using static sims.

57

 

Separation of actinide elements in environmental samples.

58

 

Determination of radionuclides in soils and waters by ICP-MS using flow-Injection concentration and ultrasonic nebulization.

59

 

Direct and simultaneous determination and quantification of radium-226 and radium-228 by liquid scintillation counting.

60

 

Tru-Spec and re-spec chromatography basic studies and applications.

61

 

On-line mercury in water monitor.

62

 

Elements of benchtop quality control.

63

 

New techniques for improving icp-oes sample throughput.

64

 

How we developed a data validation program.

65

 

Radioactive sample analysis by ICP/MS.

66

 

Lasers and ion traps.

67

 

Microscale liquid phase sensors: Chromatography on a chip.

68

 

Diode laser spectroscopy for practical isotope ratio measurements.

69

 

Determination of oil and Grease in wastewater by solid-phase extraction.

70

 

Improving method for the determination of actinide elements in soils.

71

 

DOE Methods for evaluating environmental and waste management samples: New Methods.

73

 

Methods for sampling wastes and environmental media at DOE sites.

75

 

The determination of 230th in soils by laser ablation ICP-Mass spectrometry.

76

 

Neutron activation analysis for large-scale environmental studies.

77

 

Automation of a Gamma Ray Spectroscopy system using laboratory robotics.

78

 

Maximizing the cold neutron flux from a californium-252 source.

79

 

A comparison of extraction of soils using the toxicity characteristic leaching procedure and total metal metal digestion.

80

 

Characterization of Hepa for disposal.

81

 

Radiostrontium analysis using combined cation exchange-extrication media methods.

82

 

Managing a subcontract laboratory

83

 

Laser mass spectrometry for oligonucleotide analysis.

84

 

Nondestructive measurement of combustible waste containing uranium in a B-25 box.

85

 

High Speed separations to measure impurities in PU-238 oxide and trace R Dionuclides in High Activity waste at SRS.

86

 

High speed column removal of radioactive cesium and strontium to lower exposure during analysis of high activity waste at SRS.

87

 

Integration of mobile laboratories into an analytical service strategy for environmental restoration.

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Applications of extraction chromatography in radiochemical analyses.

89

 

Terratrog soil/water gas sampling system.

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Thursday AM: Waste and environmental sampling

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8:30

Opening remarks.

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8:40

Measurement and spatial modeling of VOC contamination in soils.

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9:05

Development of sampling techniques for inel stored TRU solidified/stabilized waste forms

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9:30

Establishment of multiple phase sampling capability for characterization of nuclear wastes.

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9:55

Drilling and sampling methodology for the collection of highly radioactive soil samples.

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10:35

In SITU Characterization:  The next generation.

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11:00

Rapid isolation and measurement of TC-99.

99

11:25

Analysis and verification of compressed gas cylinders.

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