Public Health Statement for Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons (TPH)
Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons (TPH) is a term used to describe a broad family of several hundred chemical compounds that originally come from crude oil.� In this sense, TPH is really a mixture of chemicals.� They are called hydrocarbons because almost all of them are made entirely from hydrogen and carbon.� Crude oils can vary in how much of each chemical they contain, and so can ...