Water-soluble components of four fuel soils: Chemical characterization and effects on growth of microalgae
Winters, K; O'Donnell, R; Batterton, JC; Van Baalen, C
| HERO ID | 1483119 |
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| In Press | No |
| Year | 1976 |
| Title | Water-soluble components of four fuel soils: Chemical characterization and effects on growth of microalgae |
| Authors | Winters, K; O'Donnell, R; Batterton, JC; Van Baalen, C |
| Journal | Marine Biology |
| Volume | BERL |
| Issue | BERL |
| Page Numbers | 269-276 |
| Abstract | HEEP COPYRIGHT: BIOL ABS. Approximately 50% of the compounds in the water solubles from 4 fuel oils (from USA refinery locations: Baytown (Texas); Baton Rouge (Louisiana); Billings, (Montana); Linden (New Jersey)) were identified via gas chromatography and mass spectrometry. In addition to naphthalenes and benzenes, phenols, anilines and indoles were found. Of these classes of compounds methyl, dimethyl and trimethyl derivatives were present in relatively high concentrations. The water solubles from the 4 fuel oils showed considerably different inhibitory effects to growth of 6 microalgae, 2 blue greens, 2 greens and 2 diatoms. Two of the fuel-oil extracts, Baytown and Montana, were lethal to blue-green algae. This was in part traceable to their content of p-toluidine which was toxic to Agmenellum quadruplicatum, Strain PR-6, 1 mug in the algal lawn-pad assay and 100 mug/l in liquid culture. The water-soluble fraction from New Jersey fuel oil was lethal to the 2 green algae, with lesser effects on the 2 blue-greens. The 2 estuarine diatoms used as test organisms were not greatly inhibited by Baytown, Montana, or New Jersey fuel-oil water-soluble extracts. Earlier work with an American Petroleum Institute fuel oil and the diatom Thallassiosira pseudonana (3H) showed that 3H was a very sensitive organism. Water solubles from the Baton Rouge fuel oil were almost without effect on the growth of all 6 microalgae. The potential of toxic fuel oils for environmental damage is apparently high, either through selective or enrichment effects on natural populations or through a lowering of total primary production. |
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