ISO INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 18400-301 First edition 2023-09 Soil quality - Sampling - Part 301: Sampling and on site semi- quantitative determinations of volatile organic compounds in field investigations Qualitédusol-Echantillonnage- Partie 301: Echantillonnage et mesures semi-quantitatives sur site des composés organiques volatils dans le cadre d'investigations sur le terrain Reference number IS0 18400-301:2023(E) ISO @ IS0 2023 IS0 18400-301:2023(E) COPYRIGHTPROTECTEDDOCUMENT @IS02023 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, or required in the context of its implementation, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized otherwise in anyform or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying,or posting on the internet or an intranet, without prior written permission. Permission can be requested from either IO at the address below or Iso's member body in the country of the requester. ISO copyright office CP 401 : Ch.de Blandonnet 8 CH-1214 Vernier, Geneva Phone: +41 22 749 01 11 Email: [email protected] Website: www.iso.org Published in Switzerland ii IS02023-Allrightsreserved IS0 18400-301:2023(E) Contents Page Foreword. ..iv Introduction. ..V 1 Scope. ..1 2 Normative references 3 Terms and definitions ..2 4 General aspects. .2 4.1 Using data from VoCs sampling .2 4.2 Behaviourofvolatile organic compounds (voCs) ..3 4.3 Sampling strategy. 4 4.4 Sampling plan .4 4.5 Sampling station 4 4.6 Health and safety .5 5 Taking soil samples in the field ..6 5.1 General 6 5.2 Drillingtechniquestotakeundisturbedsoil samples .7 5.2.1 General 7 5.2.2 Windowless coresampler .8 5.2.3 Commentaryonsamplingfromawindowlesscoresampler .8 5.2.4 Window core sampler. .9 5.2.5 Sonic/Rota-sonic drilling 10 5.2.6 Filling of boreholes 11 5.3 Soil samplingtechniques .11 5.3.1 General .11 5.3.2 Cutting cylinder filled in-situ and sealed .12 5.3.3 Small coring devices filled ex-situ and sealed (metal coring ring or disposableplastic corer) .13 5.3.4 Vial pre-filled with methanol .17 5.3.5 Glass jar with nofield preservation .19 5.3.6 Advantages and limitations of samplingtechniques .20 On site semi-quantitative measurement ofvolatile organic compounds .25 6 6.1 General .25 6.2 Advantages and limitations ofportable equipment ..26 7 Field storageandtransportofsamples .28 8 Cleaning of sampling equipment .28 9 Qualityassuranceand qualitycontrol .28 10 Dataquality evaluation ..29 11 Recording and reporting. ..29 AnnexA(informative)Proceduresforapplicationofsoil samplingtechniques .30 Annex B (Informative)On site semi-quantitative measurement of volatiles organic ..37 compoundstypes ofmeasuringdevices. Annex C (informative)Protocolforusing aphoto-ionisationdetector ..43 Annex D (informative)Sampling and on site semi-quantitative determinations of non- ..47 organicvolatilecompounds in field investigations.. Bibliography. ..51 iii IS0 2023-Allrightsreserved