Expert Insight: Analyzing Volatile Organic Compounds with Direct Mass Spectrometry

Environmental monitoring of trace volatile organic compounds (VOCs) deemed harmful to human health faces numerous challenges due to the need to limit volatile loss, from sample collection through to analysis. This causes problems during standard methods of analysis of VOCs, in various environmental mediums, which will often involve lengthy sample preparation, followed by cumbrous and labored chromatography. Direct mass spectrometry (DMS) provides opportunities for simplification – or even elimination – of sample preparation, plus real-time or high-throughput sample analysis.

If you are an environmental monitoring specialist or wish to improve the speed of your VOC analysis in the laboratory, we invite you to join our discussion with two experts in the field – Dr. Barry Prince and Dr. Raj Parthipan, from Syft Technologies.

The key items that will be under discussion will be:

• Selected ion flow tube mass spectrometry (SIFT-MS), a DMS technique that provides highly sensitive and selective analysis of a wide range of compounds by applying eight rapidly switchable soft chemical ionization agents.
• How diverse VOCs (such as benzene and formaldehyde) and inorganic gases (such as sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide) are detected in a single, simple analysis.
• Various environmental applications of SIFT-MS, ranging from real-time ambient air monitoring to high-throughput soil and water analysis.

Who should attend the webinar:

• Environmental engineers and scientists
• Analytical chemists
• Laboratory managers / directors / supervisors
• QA/QC managers and scientists

Attend the live webinar:

The webinar will be taking place on Thursday, March 21, 2019, at:

• 16:00 GMT
•  12:00 EDT
•  09:00 PDT
•  17:00 CET