Chemical evolution of Macondo crude oil during laboratory degradation as characterized by fluorescence EEMs and hydrocarbon composition

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 66, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 164-175

  Zhou, Zhengzhen ^a   Liu, Zhanfei ^b   Guo, Laodong ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissolved organic matter; Fluorescence EEMs; Gulf of Mexico; Hydrocarbon; Macondo well; Oil degradation; PAHs

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTIC; CHEMICAL EVOLUTION; CONTROLLED LABORATORIES; DEGRADATION PATHWAYS; DISPERSANTS; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTERS; FATE AND TRANSPORT; FLUORESCENT OIL; GULF OF MEXICO; HYDROCARBON COMPOSITIONS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OIL COMPONENTS; OIL DEGRADATION; PAHS; PARAFAC; PHOTOCHEMICAL DEGRADATION; WATER COLUMNS;

CRUDE OIL; FLUORESCENCE; HYDROCARBONS; PHOTODEGRADATION; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS;

DEGRADATION;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; HYDROCARBON; OIL DISPERSANT; PETROLEUM;

CRUDE OIL; DEGRADATION; DISPERSION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; FLUORESCENCE; MARINE POLLUTION; OIL SPILL; PAH; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; TRANSFORMATION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; FRACTIONATION; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; MEXICO; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PHASE TRANSITION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER TRANSPORT;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVOLUTION, CHEMICAL; FLUORESCENCE; LABORATORIES; MEXICO; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PETROLEUM; PETROLEUM POLLUTION; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 84872487047     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2012.09.028     Document Type: Article

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