Kelly AFB in San Antonio was established in 1917 and closed in 2001. Kelly operated not only as an airfield,  but also a supply and fuel depot,  aircraft maintenance and repair facility which included parts cleaning, stripping, painting, and metal fabrication and plating.  Over time large amounts of degreasing solvents were disposed of by burying on the site resulting in the current underground contamination plume consisting mostly of chlorinated solvents.  The objective of this project is to use SPME to analyze headspace of  local tree samples obtained on Kelly AFB existing over the contamination plume in hopes of detecting chloroethanes.  To be presented include initial results and optimum methods for analysis including sample collection.

Method development for analyzing chloroethanes in trees over a contamination plume

245th National Meeting (2013)

The official archive and repository for all ACS Meetings & Expositions abstracts and select posters or presentations.