A field bioremediation assay using the oleophilic fertilizer S200 was carried out 10 months after the Prestige heavy fuel-oil spill on a beach of the Cantabrian coast (North Spain). The field survey showed that S200 significantly enhanced the biodegradation rate, particularly of high molecular weight n-alkanes, alkylcyclohexanes, and benzenes, and alkylated PAHs, paralleling the results previou...

The global pandemic of non-vector borne environmental diseases may, in large part, be attributed to chronic exposures to ever increasing levels of exogenous lipophilic chemicals. These chemicals include persistent organic pollutants, semi-volatile compounds and low molecular weight hydrocarbons. Such chemicals facilitate the sequential absorption of otherwise not absorbed more toxic hydrophilic...

Solid phase micro-extraction (SPME) is a clean and simple pre-concentration method. Previously used for trace analysis of volatil compounds, the use of SPME was extended to non volatil molecules with the development of an SPME /HPLC interface. This new interface allows the extraction and the analyses of high molecular weight compounds found in aqueous samples. Since supercritical fluid chromato...

Four hundred and seventy-six hydrocarbons (CnHm) were utilized to fit their normal boiling point temperatures (NBPT) as a function of molecular weight and carbon atomic fraction. The proposed model is of the following form: NBPT = a∗(Cfrac)∧b∗(MW )∧c, where a, b, and c are the non-linear regressed parameters for the given model; Cfrac is the carbon atomic fraction in a molecule, which is equal ...

Four hundred and seventy-six hydrocarbons (CnHm) were utilized to fit their normal boiling point temperatures (NBPT) as a function of molecular weight and carbon atomic fraction. The proposed model is of the following form: NBPT=a*(Cfrac) ^b* (MW) ^ c where a, b, and c are the non-linear regressed parameters for the given model; Cfrac is the carbon atomic fraction in a molecule, which is equal ...

The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) blowout resulted in oil transport, including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) to the Gulf of Mexico shoreline. The microbial communities of these shorelines are thought to be responsible for the intrinsic degradation of PAHs. To investigate the Gulf Coast beach microbial community response to hydrocarbon exposure, we examined the functional gene diversity, bac...

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) concentrations in suspended particulate samples from the Mackenzie River delta and shelf sediments from the Beaufort Sea are higher than expected for a pristine area. Low concentrations of combustion PAHs indicate that anthropogenic inputs are low. Alkyl PAH distributions indicate that a significant component of the lower molecular weight parent (unsubstitu...

A vertical pattern of fractionated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) was studied in the Japan Basin Sea Japan. The highest PAH concentration found mesopelagic realm, possibly resulting from deep convection and/or subduction intermediate water and its biogeochemical setting western Basin. Using 226Ra 228Ra as tracers revealed load open sea coastal polluted water. Dissolved PAHs (DPAH, fract...

In the present research, three different architectures were investigated to predict the coefficients of the Daubert and Danner equation for calculation of saturated liquid density. The first architecture with 4 network input parameters including critical temperature, critical pressure, critical volume and molecular weight, the second architecture with 6 network input parameters including the on...