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4th Mission Report _KE3_Jan –Feb 2013The laboratory training was focused exclusively in Baku at the National Environmental MonitoringDepartment (NEMD) of the Centre for Environmental Pollution Monitoring of the Ministry of Ecology andNatural Resources of the Azerbaijan Republic.During this mission the following senior staff directed the work:1) Arastun Hasanov, Director National Department Environmental Monitoring Azerbaijan2) Aliyev Vasif, Head of Laboratory3) Gulkar Mammadova, Deputy Head of Laboratory.Organo-Chlorine Pesticide (OCP) AnalysisTo date, the NEMD Central Laboratory still had not commissioned its new Agilent GLC, though it had beenremoved from its packaging and sited in the Chromatography Laboratory. According to the AnarMammadov, Manager of Sem-Az, the local supplier, the apparatus could not be commissioned owing tothe following issues:i. A UPS was required, as the electrical supplies in Baku were unreliable.ii. An earth connection needed to be installed in the electrical sockets.iii. For the method to operate, solvents and calibration standards were required.iv. A dedicated computer is required to operate the GLC.The Agilent GLC was funded by another EU project focusing on analyzing transformer oils for PCBs.Therefore the NEMD were waiting for the extra funding for these other requirements. However after anumber of discussions with the senior staff and with Anar Mammadov, the KE3 was assured that theseissues would be all resolved in order to commission the equipment, and appropriate training would alsobe submitted. Sem-Az not only commission the analytical equipment but they also assist their clients indeveloping the analytical methods including the extraction procedures. If this service is provided well andin time then the OCP method should be ready for the Project Joint Field Survey (JFS). The KE3 supplied theNEMD and Sem-Az with hard copies of standard methods for the analysis of OCPs in water. He alsopresented an introductory local training course on important aspects of GLC analysis.As a possible contingency, the KE3 was introduced to another private laboratory AZEKOLAB, headed byBehruz Suleymanov. This laboratory had the state of the art equipment for all types of environmentalanalyses and also had undertaken excellent research into OCP analysis. It might be possible to use theiranalytical services as a last resort, but AZEKOLAB would have to obtain permission from their mainsponsor BP. However, it is more likely they could assist NEMD by advising on the optimum analyticalmethods.Analytical Quality ControlsThe Water Analysis Department carries out internal quality control analysis for certain parameters such asnitrates ammonia and phosphates. However they do not have a statistical system to check these resultsor apply Shewhart Charts. In addition the results were quoted to four decimal places, when the LOD wasonly two; therefore it was recommended that in this situation to quote only to two decimal places.The staff were all intensively trained by a training workshop and hands on training on how to developtheir AQC results statistically and to construct Shewhart charts.Hydrobiological AnalysisPage 8 of 36