- by Jeroen Bosboom
- in Projects, Uncategorized
- on September 10, 1996

As part of a Post Master’s program and employment at the Eindhoven University of Technology of Jeroen Bosboom (from 1992 to 1996) several scientific publications were published.
With a Master of Science degree in Chemical Process Engineering obtained at the same University as back ground, Jeroen Bosboom conducted research on different water pollution assessment methodologies suitable for Eastern Africa.
Research was carried out to develop a Rapid Assessment methodology for water pollution. Tanzania, commonly known as the Lake zone, was taken as a case study in order to produce an inventory of pollution sources of industrial, domestic, agricultural and mining origin.
The method is based on relationships between characteristics and functional variables of pollution sources and waste generation.
The Rapid Assessment procedure proved to be a useful tool in evaluation of environmental in Tanzania where it is difficult to obtain certain kinds of information, or has high level technological infrastructure to do accurate measurements.




The case study was meant to reveal and quantify all environmental pollution issues in the Tanzanian catchment area of lake Victoria. Furthermore it was meant to indicate the use of such methodology in an area where data resources and laboratory infrastructure are limited accessible.
The results of the Rapid Assessment Methodology for Lake Victoria was published in the Journal of Eastern African Research & Development and in the Netherlands as part of the Post Master’s research.
As key to environmental monitoring is data integrity, in-depth research was also conducted on monitoring of water pollution through real sampling and analysis. To strengthen laboratorial capacity in Eastern Africa academic research was carried out on the development of suitable gas chromatographic analytical methods and instrumentation
The use of the programmed-temperature vaporizing (PTV) injector as a versatile interface for large-volume injection in capillary GC was researched. A set-up consisting of a retention gap, a retaining precolumn and an early solvent vapour exit was installed between the on-column insert and the analytical column. The instrument allowed PTV and on-column large-volume sampling to be performed using only one injector, greatly reducing instrument costs for large-volume sampling equipment.
These results were published in Chromatography A.