Analysis of Photoirradiated Water Accommodated Fractions of Crude Oils Using Tandem TIMS and FT-ICR MS.
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| Title: | Analysis of Photoirradiated Water Accommodated Fractions of Crude Oils Using Tandem TIMS and FT-ICR MS. |
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| Authors: | Benigni, Paolo1, Sandoval, Kathia1, Thompson, Christopher J.2, Ridgeway, Mark E.2, Park, Melvin A.2, Gardinali, Piero1,3, Fernandez-Lima, Francisco1,4 fernandf@fiu.edu |
| Source: | Environmental Science & Technology. 6/6/2017, Vol. 51 Issue 11, p5978-5988. 11p. |
| Subject Terms: | *Petroleum & the environment, *Petroleum as fuel -- Environmental aspects, Resonance accelerators, Cyclotrons, Photooxidative stress |
| Abstract: | For the first time, trapped ion mobility spectrometry (TIMS) in tandem with Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FT-ICR MS) is applied to the analysis of the low energy water accommodated fraction (WAF) of a crude oil as a function of the exposure to light. The TIMS-FT-ICR MS analysis provided, in addition to the heteroatom series identification, new insights into the WAF isomeric complexity (e.g., [m/z; chemical formula; collision cross section] data sets) for a better evaluation of the degree of chemical and structural photoinduced transformations. Inspection of the [m/z; chemical formula; collision cross section] data sets shows that the WAF composition changes as a function of the exposure to light in the first 115 h by initial photosolubilization of HC components and their photo-oxidation up to O4-5 of mainly high double bond equivalence species (DBE > 9). The addition of high resolution TIMS (resolving power of 90-220) to ultrahigh resolution FT-ICR MS (resolving power over 400k) permitted the identification of a larger number of molecular components in a single analysis (e.g., over 47k using TIMS-MS compared to 12k by MS alone), with instances of over 6-fold increase in the number of molecular features per nominal mass due to the WAF isomeric complexity. This work represents a stepping stone toward a better understanding of the WAF components and highlights the need for better experimental and theoretical approaches to characterize the WAF structural diversity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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