{"id":17019,"date":"2023-03-02T21:49:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T02:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/?p=17019"},"modified":"2023-03-02T21:49:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T02:49:49","slug":"steep-team-evaluates-low-cost-method-for-confident-pfas-detection-in-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/steep-team-evaluates-low-cost-method-for-confident-pfas-detection-in-water\/","title":{"rendered":"STEEP team evaluates low-cost method for confident PFAS detection in water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-third_column wp-image-17020\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/PassiveSampler-364x256.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"364\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/PassiveSampler-364x256.jpeg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/PassiveSampler-189x133.jpeg 189w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/PassiveSampler-150x105.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/PassiveSampler-768x540.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/PassiveSampler-500x351.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1022\/PassiveSampler.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/>The increasing scale of PFAS in the environment and resultant risks to human health have catalyzed need for reliable and low-cost PFAS detection methods; passive sampling is an alternative to traditional water grab sampling, requiring no power source for in situ deployment. STEEP researchers evaluated a microporous polyethylene tube with a hydrophilic\u2013lipophilic balance sorbent as a flow-resistant passive sampler for PFAS. In addition to efficiency and cost-effectiveness, integrative passive samplers allow for time-weighted averages of PFAS water concentrations, providing a holistic view of contamination over days, tides, and seasons. Research demonstrates tube sampling rates are sensitive to many PFAS compounds and thus may be utilized as a simple tool to screen various water bodies such as wells or rivers.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dunn, M., Becanova, J., Snook, J., Ruyle, B., and R. Lohmann. Calibration of Perfluorinated Alkyl Acid Uptake Rates by a Tube Passive Sampler in Water. ACS ES&amp;T Water<strong>2023<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>3<\/em>&nbsp;(2), 332-341. [<a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/full\/10.1021\/acsestwater.2c00384\">https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/full\/10.1021\/acsestwater.2c00384<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The increasing scale of PFAS in the environment and resultant risks to human health have catalyzed need for reliable and low-cost PFAS detection methods; passive sampling is an alternative to traditional water grab sampling, requiring no power source for in situ deployment. STEEP researchers evaluated a microporous polyethylene tube with a hydrophilic\u2013lipophilic balance sorbent as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4786,"featured_media":17020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletter-winter-2023"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4786"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17021,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17019\/revisions\/17021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/steep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}