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Chemical Analysis of Water-accommodated Fractions of Crude Oil Spills Using TIMS-FT-ICR MS
Published on: March 3, 2017
New approach to study of spilled crude oils using high resolution GC-MS (SIM) and metastable reaction monitoring
D Munoz1, P Doumenq, M Guiliano
1Laboratoire de Chimie Analytique de l'Environment, URA CNRS 1409, Case 312. Faculté des Sciences et Techniques de St. Jérôme, 13397 Marseille Cedex 20, France; Centre de Recherche TOTAL. Département Analyse, BP 27, 76700 Harfleur, France.
Abstract:
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and geochemical biomarkers are good environmental markers to study the origin and evolution of an oil spill. To have access to the greatest number of molecular ratios, no fractionation of oil into aliphatic and aromatic compounds is made. Three analytical MS approaches are tested to analyze markers in this total hydrocarbon fraction: classical quadrupole GC-MS, high resolution GC-MS (HR GC-MS) and metastable reaction monitoring GC-MS-MS (MRM GC-MS-MS). This analytical approach is used to follow the evolution of PAHs in petroleum polluted mangrove soils over 8 years by using molecular ratios between polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and tri- and tetracyclic terpanes.
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