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ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY
Volume 242, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2022.113866
Keywords
Polycyclicaromatichydrocarbons; Gas-particlepartitioning; Oilcombustion; Condensate; Diesel; Heavy oil
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41807341]
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This study focuses on the gas-particle partitioning of PAHs from oil combustion. The findings reveal that PAHs are derived from mixed sources including unburned oil and combustion products. This research contributes to the understanding of the fate and transport of PAH emissions and can potentially improve emergency responses to accidents such as marine oil spills.
This study focuses on the gas-particle (G-P) partitioning of 16 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from oil combustion, which is one of the important contributors of anthropogenic PAHs but has been rarely studied. The combustions of different types of oils involving ultra-light to heavy oils were investigated, and the PAH partitioning mechanism was determined by the widely used Junge-Pankow adsorption model, K-oa absorption model, and dual sorption model, respectively. The results show that the source-specific diagnostic ratios of Ant/ (Ant+Phe) are between 0.09 and 0.24, the estimated regression slopes of G-P partition coefficients (K-P) of the total PAHs on their sub-cooled liquid vapor pressures (P-L(O)) are in the range of -0.34 to -0.25, and the predicted fractions of PAHs in the particle phase (phi) by K-oa absorption model are close to the measured values, while the log K-P values of the LMW PAHs from the combustions of diesel and heavy oil are better represented by the dual sorption model. Our findings indicate that PAHs are derived from mixed sources that include the unburned original oil and combustion products, and the PAH partitioning mechanism is governed by the process of ab-sorption into organic matter because of the unburned oil, but both adsorption and absorption exist simultaneously in the lighter PAHs from the combustions of heavier oils (i.e., diesel and heavy oil). Based on these findings, the understanding of the fate and transport of PAH emissions and the optimization of the emergency responses to accidents such as marine oil spills would be potentially improved.
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