Issue 10, 2012
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Journal of Environmental Monitoring

Using Py-GC/MS to fingerprint additives associated with paper mill effluent toxicity episodes

B. Bruce Sithole,*a   Jorge Pimentel,b   Sharon Gibbonsb  and  Chu Watanabec  

* Corresponding authors

a Forestry and Forest Products Research Centre, University of KwaZulu-Natal/CSIR Natural Resources and the Environment, Durban, South Africa
E-mail: bsithole@csir.co.za

b FPInnovations, Montreal, Canada

c Frontier Laboratories Ltd., Fukushima, Japan

Abstract

Understanding the cause of effluent toxicity is an important requirement for its prevention, remediation and return to compliance. One component of the strategy entails identification and fingerprinting of additives or components in additives that may be the cause of the toxicity episodes. A number of additives used in pulp and papermaking are polymeric compounds that are suspect in effluent toxicity. Their analysis and detection is difficult as they are not amenable to analysis by normal techniques applicable to mill effluents such as gas chromatography. Py-GC/MS is a powerful analytical technique that can be used to fingerprint these additives. The presence of the additives is confirmed by fingerprint pyrograms of the additives (or components in the formulations of the additives) in conjunction with mass spectrometry. The technique has been used to fingerprint and quantify polymeric additives associated with mill effluent toxicity episodes.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2EM30359K
Article type
Paper
Submitted
05 May 2012
Accepted
07 Aug 2012
First published
13 Aug 2012

J. Environ. Monit., 2012,14, 2729-2738

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Using Py-GC/MS to fingerprint additives associated with paper mill effluent toxicity episodes

B. B. Sithole, J. Pimentel, S. Gibbons and C. Watanabe, J. Environ. Monit., 2012, 14, 2729 DOI: 10.1039/C2EM30359K

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