Evaluation of the diagnostic ratios for the identification of spilled oils after biodegradation

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 917-926

  Wang, Chuanyuan ^a   Gao, Xuelu ^a   Sun, Zhigao ^a   Qin, Zhijiang ^b   Yin, Xiaonan ^b   He, Shijie ^c  

^a YANTAI INSTITUTE OF COASTAL ZONE RESEARCH   (China)

^b China Maritime Safety Administration   (China)

^c LUDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Biodegradation; Carbon isotopic type curve; Conventional diagnostic ratio; Evaluation; Identification; Oil spill

Indexed keywords

BIOMARKERS; DIAGNOSTIC PRODUCTS; HYDROCARBON REFINING; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); ISOTOPES; OIL SPILLS; PARAFFINS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; WEATHERING;

BIODEGRADATION PROCESS; DIAGNOSTIC RATIOS; EVALUATION; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS (PAHS); RELATIVE STANDARD DEVIATIONS; SATURATED HYDROCARBONS; TYPE CURVES;

BIODEGRADATION;

ALKANE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOMARKER; CARBON ISOTOPE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDROCARBON; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; OIL SPILL; PAH; WEATHERING;

EID: 84872850563     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-012-1792-y     Document Type: Article

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