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The determination of VOCs in the different air environments has attracted attention from the scientific community the last ten years because VOCs create photochemical pollution and cause many health problems. The on-line determination of VOCs in indoor/outdoor field measurements can be carried out using different analytical methods and instrumentation. The main category of methods concerns automated gas chromatographs GCs equipped either with flame ionization detector (FID) or photoionization detector (PID). For outdoor measurements spectrometric methods can often be used such as Differential Optical Absorption Spectrometry (DOAS) and Fourier Transform IR (FT-IR). Recent advances have made available methods such as Direct MS analysis (D-MS) and Membrane Introduction MS analysis (MI-MS) for the direct determination of VOCs. Recently, the use of biosensors for the in-situ determination of VOCs has been grown up.
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Siskos, P.A., Bakeas, E.B., Baya, M.P. (1998). Analytical Methodology for the Determination of Volatile Organic Compounds in Indoor and Outdoor Environment. In: Nikolelis, D.P., Krull, U.J., Wang, J., Mascini, M. (eds) Biosensors for Direct Monitoring of Environmental Pollutants in Field. NATO ASI Series, vol 38. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8973-4_2
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