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CHEMOSPHERE
卷 50, 期 10, 页码 1265-1274出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-6535(02)00763-4
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naphthenic acids; oil sands; t-test; toxicity; gas chromatography-mass spectrometry; mass spectrometry
Naphthenic acids are complex mixtures of alkyl-substituted acyclic and cycloaliphatic carboxylic acids, with the general chemical formula C2H2n+zO2, where n is the carbon number and Z specifies a homologous family. These acids have a variety of commercial uses, including being used as wood preservatives. They are found in conventional and heavy oils, and in the oil sands of northeastern Alberta, Canada. Naphthenic acids are major contributors to the toxicity of tailings waters that result from the oil sands extraction process. Eight naphthenic acids preparations (four from commercial sources and four from the oil sands operations) were derivatized and analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The composition of each mixture was summarized as a three-dimensional plot of the abundance of specific ions (corresponding to naphthenic acids) versus carbon number (ranging from 5 to 33) and Z family (ranging from 0 to -12). The data in these plots were divided into three groups according to carbon number (group I contained carbon numbers 5-14, group 2 contained carbon numbers 15-21, and group 3 contained carbon numbers 22-33). A t-test, using arcsine-transformed data, was applied to compare corresponding groups in samples from various sources. Results of the statistical analyses showed differences between various commercial naphthenic acids preparations, and between naphthenic acids from different oil sands ores and tailings ponds. This statistical approach can be applied to data collected by other mass spectrometry methods. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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