Studies on the origin and transformation of selenium and its chemical species along the process of petroleum refining

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 491-499

  Stivanin de Almeida, Cibele M ^a   Ribeiro, Anderson S ^a   Saint'Pierre, Tatiana D ^a   Miekeley, Norbert ^a  

^a PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Ion chromatography; Petroleum; Selenium; Speciation analysis; Wastewaters

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; AQUEOUS PROCESS; AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC DISTILLATION; CELL PARAMETER; CHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION; CHEMICAL SPECIES; COMPLEX COMPOSITIONS; CONCENTRATION OF; CRUDE OIL; DETECTION LIMITS; DYNAMIC REACTION CELL; ELECTROTHERMAL VAPORIZATION; FLOW-INJECTION-HYDRIDE; HIGH SALINITY; HYDROTREATER; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA-OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; INTERFERENTS; MATRIX; PETROLEUM; RETENTION TIME; SELENOCYANATE; SIGNAL-TO-BACKGROUND RATIO; SPECIATION ANALYSIS; TREATED WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER SAMPLES;

ATOMIC SPECTROSCOPY; CELL MEMBRANES; CHROMATOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CRUDE PETROLEUM; DISTILLATION; DISTILLATION EQUIPMENT; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; ION CHROMATOGRAPHY; IONS; ISOTOPES; LEAKAGE (FLUID); MASS SPECTROMETERS; METHANE; OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; PETROLEUM REFINERIES; PETROLEUM REFINING; REFINING; SELENIUM; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SPECTROMETRY; WASTEWATER;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

EID: 67651120013     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2009.02.002     Document Type: Article

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