ORGANO-CHLORINE COMPOUNDS IN INDUSTRIAL SOILS

Objective

Polluted industrial soils are causing considerable difficulties in industrialized countries. Reclamation of polluted areas requires considerable expenditure as well as the disposal or destruction of the waste. In view of the problem of elimination of dangerous waste several Directives have already been adopted (e.g. 78/319/EEC, 75/442/EEC or 87/216/EEC) which deal with removal, treatment and transport of waste. Other Directives in this field are expected in the near future.
The accurate characterization of waste has considerable economic consequences because the results of these are used to decide on the treatment to be applied for reclamation. Organo-chlorine compounds are within the most commonly encountered type of contaminants. Over the last decades large areas have been exposed, by industrial activities, to contamination by chlorobenzenes (CBs), chlorophenols (CPs), polychlorodibenzo-p-dioxins and furanes (PCDDs and PCDFs), chorinated pesticides, polychloro-biphenyls (PCBs) and the side products.
This project intends to study the various analytical steps of the determination of CPs, CBs, PCDDs and PCDFs in order to highlight the sources of errors of the analytical methods. Finally two soils should be certified for CPs - CBs and dioxins when the methods applied by the participating laboratories have reached a sufficient reliability.

STATUS

A certified reference material is in preparation.

Programme(s)

• FP2-BCR 4 - Research and development programme (EEC) in the field of applied metrology and chemical analysis (Community Bureau of Reference - BCR), 1988-1992

Topic(s)

Data not available

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES HYDROLOGIQUES

Address

Rue Gabriel Péri 11 Bis
54500 Vandoeuvre-les-nancy
France

Participants (13)

Atochem

France

Address

95 Rue Danton
92300 Levallois-perret

Bayer AG

Germany

Address

51373 Leverkusen

INSTITUT NATIONAL DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT INDUSTRIEL ET DES RISQUES

France

Address

Parc Technologique Alata
Verneuil En Halatte

Links

INSTITUT PASTEUR DE LILLE

France

Address

Rue Du Professeur Calmette 1
59019 Lille

Institut Fresenius GmbH

Germany

Address

Konrad-adenauer-straße 30
55218 Ingelheim

Miljoe-Kemie Roedovre

Denmark

Address

251-253,roedovrevej
2610 Roedovre

RIVM

Netherlands

Address

9,a. Van Leeuwenhoeklaan
3720 BA Bilthoven

RW-TÜV - Anlagentechnik GmbH

Germany

Address

Langemarckstraße 20
45141 Essen

SCITEC S.A.

Switzerland

Address

20,av. De Provence
1007 Lausanne

Universidad de Barcelona 1

Spain

Address

647,avda. Diagonal
08028 Barcelona

Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

Spain

Address

15706 Santiago De Compostela

University of Amsterdam

Netherlands

Address

166,nieuwe Achtergracht
1018 WV Amsterdam

VITO - Vlaamse Inst. voor Technologisch Onderzoek

Belgium

Address

200,boeretang
2400 Mol