Kelly Horiuchi, Co-founder, Volterre Environmental, & Paul Michalski, 212 Environmental
On April 5, 2023, at 4 pm CT, Volterre Environmental Co-Founder, Kelly Horiuchi, and 212 Environmental Consulting’s Senior Hydrologist, Paul Michalski, will team up to discuss the latest TPH testing methods to assess total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) soil and water pollutants. You’ll find them at the 4C Heath/Safety/Environmental Conference 2023 in Austin, Texas, April 4-8, 2023. It’s a seminar you don’t want to miss.
The 4C Health, Safety, and Environmental conference provides a venue for people in the environmental industry to come together to learn best practices from one another, demo the newest technologies in the field, stay current with new compliance issues and strategies, and learn from trusted experts in the HSE field including Kelly and Paul.
When is the seminar?
It’s at the end of Day 2 on April 5 at 4-4:45 pm Central Time. Kelly and Paul will entice you with fun prizes and gift cards!
More than a decade has passed since Total Petroleum Hydrocarbon (TPH) contamination testing and analytical methods have been updated. Now is the time to stop using a catch-all total value “shovel” method. Instead, we must implement a more surgical approach with precision science-based technology to protect the planet, people, and profits.
Risk management decisions at petroleum release sites generally require an understanding of the hydrocarbon composition. However, traditional TPH analytical techniques do not provide speciated data on the hydrocarbon composition. TPH analyses and standards are inconsistent. Therefore, it is difficult to accurately determine health risks and develop values for mixtures of hydrocarbons.
Most risk assessors prefer to assess individual constituents rather than evaluate TPH concentrations. Early adopters, such as the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, are using a more applicable, fractionated TPH concentration.
The time is now for the next era of TPH testing methods and analytical techniques. TPH speciation is made possible through forensic fingerprinting with target compound selectivity, two-dimensional resolution, and peak differentiation. They all provide accurate tools to better define the nature and associated risk of hydrocarbon mixtures at petroleum release sites. Improved, surgical TPH methods would avoid unnecessary remediation. What is more, TPH fingerprint analysis will avoid underestimation of potential risks due to petroleum hydrocarbons in soil, water, groundwater, air, and other media.
