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Need Help from an industrial organo-chemist
« on: July 12, 2007, 05:45:31 AM »
Hi,
I inspect industrial wastewater quality, and I've found a material I don't recognize. Can anyone tell me what is it, and what could be the source of it? I would be grateful.
This material contains (according to a GC-MS analysis):
 
1-nonadecene (cas# 18435-45-5)
docosane (cas# 629-97-0)
nonahexacontanoic acid (cas# 40710-32-5)
1-eicosene (cas# 3452-07-1)
nonacosane (cas# 630-03-5)
tetracosane (cas# 646-31-1)
1-hexacosene (cas# 18835-33-1)
tridecane (cas# 629-50-5)
1,5,4-dibromo-tetrapentacontane (cas# 1000156-09-4)
2-octadecyloxy ethanol (cas# 2136-72-3)
2-hexyl-1-decanol (cas# 2425-77-6)
octadecane (cas# 593-45-3)
2,6,10,14-tetramethyl hexadecane (cas# 638-36-8)

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Re: Need Help from an industrial organo-chemist
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2007, 07:23:58 AM »
Most of them are hydrocarbons from fuel
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Re: Need Help from an industrial organo-chemist
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2007, 09:07:31 AM »
Thanks for your reply,
I know they're found in fuels, but this one was an odorless oil. 

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Re: Need Help from an industrial organo-chemist
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2007, 09:38:21 AM »
Odour depends on concentration and of content. This is a reason why deodorants work.
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Re: Need Help from an industrial organo-chemist
« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2007, 01:49:13 AM »
Can you suggest possible sources for this transparent, odorless "oil" wich contains these fuel constituents?

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Re: Need Help from an industrial organo-chemist
« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2007, 09:07:01 PM »
Odorants are not naturally present in fuel. They are added so that one can detect/smell fuel leakage.
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Re: Need Help from an industrial organo-chemist
« Reply #6 on: July 16, 2007, 08:00:09 AM »
So you suggest this is some kind of crude fuel?   

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Re: Need Help from an industrial organo-chemist
« Reply #7 on: July 16, 2007, 11:18:03 PM »
What kind of businesses contribute to the waste water?
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Re: Need Help from an industrial organo-chemist
« Reply #8 on: July 17, 2007, 08:42:04 AM »
heavy industry, including everything from crude oil processing to cookey bakeries.

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Re: Need Help from an industrial organo-chemist
« Reply #9 on: July 18, 2007, 06:32:58 AM »
A few of these substances have double bonds, or alcohols... this does not seem to me to be fuel... Maybe someone has some other ideas?

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