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Area of Science:

  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Computational Toxicology
  • Analytical Chemistry

Background:

  • Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are persistent organic pollutants with known health risks.
  • Accurate identification and quantification of PCB mixtures in air are crucial for environmental monitoring.
  • Existing analytical methods often focus on known compounds, potentially missing novel or unknown pollutant associations.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a computational framework for autonomous discovery and quantification of unknown associations between target and non-target toxic industrial air pollutants.
  • To evaluate the variability of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) data using integrated statistical, signal processing, and graph-based informatics techniques.
  • To bridge peak-cognizant target analysis and chemometric analysis for comprehensive pollution studies.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized adaptive signal processing (minimum mean-squared techniques) to detect and separate coeluted peaks in gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC/MS/MS) data.
  • Employed L2 error minimization for autonomous peak fitting and PCB quantification, achieving a normalized mean square error of -18.4851 dB.
  • Implemented graph-based visualization, principal component analysis, and fuzzy c-means (FCM) and k-means clustering to analyze associations between known and unknown compounds.

Main Results:

  • Successfully detected and quantified PCBs in 150 air samples, comparing the framework's efficiency against traditional target-only techniques.
  • Identified specific PCB congeners (Aroclors 1232, 1254, 1016, 1221, and PCB 11) as unique source signals.
  • Demonstrated the framework's capability to differentiate between legacy and modern sources of PCBs in air samples from Chicago, IL.

Conclusions:

  • The developed computational framework robustly discovers and quantifies unknown associations involving toxic air pollutants like PCBs.
  • The integrated approach offers a more comprehensive understanding of complex pollutant mixtures and their origins compared to traditional methods.
  • This interdisciplinary work provides a valuable tool for environmental monitoring and toxicological risk assessment.