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Oil-spill identification by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry
1Refining and Petrochemistry Institute, Analytical Department, LUKOIL-NEFTOCHIM-BOURGAS JSC, 8104 Bourgas, Bulgaria.
Journal of Chromatographic Science
|July 5, 2003
Abstract:
Two approaches are proposed for the identification of a contaminant caused by the spilling of oil or oil products in water. A capillary gas chromatography (CGC)-mass spectrometry (MS) method for oil spill identification is applied. The presented approaches describe the use of MS data of 18 selective ions of spilled product and the probable pollutant. The spill identification is accomplished on the bases of a quantitative comparison between the ion chromatograms of the samples taken from the probable pollutant and from the spill itself. The other approach is made by chemometric treatment of complete CGC-MS data.