Isolation and characterization of naphthenic acids from Athabasca oil sands tailings pond water.

Abstract:

:A laboratory bench procedure was developed to efficiently extract naphthenic acids from bulk volumes of Athabasca oil sands tailings pond water (TPW) for use in mammalian oral toxicity testing. This solvent-based procedure involved low solvent losses and a good extraction yield with low levels of impurities. Importantly, labour-intensive centrifugation of source water to remove solids was avoided, allowing processing of much larger volumes of water compared with previous protocols. Naphthenic acids, present at an estimated concentration of 81 mg/l, were procured from 515.5 l of TPW at an overall extraction efficiency of approximately 85%. By using distillation to recover and recycle solvent, a high solvent:water ratio was maintained while actual solvent consumption was limited to 70 ml per liter of water processed. Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry suggested a highly heterogeneous naphthenic acid mixture that exhibited nearly identical proportions of monocyclic, polycyclic, and acyclic acids with molecular weights primarily between 220 and 360. Biphenyls, naphthalenes, and phenanthrene/anthracene were the most prominent impurities detected, but their levels were low (< or = 13 microg/l) even in a concentrated solution of the naphthenic acids (8549 mg/l). Naphthenic acids stored at 4 degrees C at this concentration were stable, exhibiting no significant change in concentration over a 10-month period. This bulk isolation procedure should be useful to others needing to process large volumes of tailings or other source water for the purpose of procuring moderate amounts of naphthenic acids.

journal_name

Chemosphere

journal_title

Chemosphere

authors

Rogers VV,Liber K,MacKinnon MD

doi

10.1016/s0045-6535(02)00133-9

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2002-08-01 00:00:00

pages

519-27

issue

5

eissn

0045-6535

issn

1879-1298

pii

S0045-6535(02)00133-9

journal_volume

48

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