Analytical approaches to characterizing fish tainting potential of oil sands process waters / V. Rogers, M. MacKinnon, and B. Brownlee.: En13-5/05-168E-PDF
"A three-stage study has been carried out with rainbow trout (Oncorhyncus mykiss) to develop analytical approaches which can provide a fingerprint for tainting by oil sands chemicals from process-affected waters and natural sources. The objective is to find a simpler alternative to sensory evaluation. In the first stage, a set of seven test compounds was added to fish tissue which was analyzed by headspace and solvent (dichloromethane, DCM) extraction followed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). In the second stage, fingerlings (5-20g) were exposed for 96 hours to the test compound mixture at 1.0 and 0.5 times the estimated tainting threshold concentrations. In the final stage, fingerlings were exposed for 96 hours to an oil sands process water at 5, 10, 20 and 50% concentrations in clean water. None of the test compounds was identified in DCM extracts of tissue from exposed fish. Two long-chain aldehydes, hexadecanal and 9-octadecenal, were tentatively identified in these extracts by matching of mass spectra with library spectra"--Abstract.
Permanent link to this Catalogue record:
publications.gc.ca/pub?id=9.871851&sl=0
| Department/Agency | Canada. Environment Canada. Canada Centre for Inland Waters. National Water Research Institute (Canada) |
|---|---|
| Title | Analytical approaches to characterizing fish tainting potential of oil sands process waters / V. Rogers, M. MacKinnon, and B. Brownlee. |
| Series title | NWRI contribution ; 05-168 |
| Publication type | Series - View Master Record |
| Language | [English] |
| Format | Electronic |
| Electronic document | |
| Note(s) | Title from caption. Digitized edition from print [produced by Environment and Climate Change Canada]. Includes bibliographical references. Includes abstract in English and French. |
| Publishing information | Burlington, Ontario, Canada : National Water Research Institute, Environment Canada, Canada Centre for Inland Waters = Institut national de recherche sur les eaux, Environnement Canada, Centre canadien des eaux intérieures, [2005?] |
| Author / Contributor | Rogers, V., author. MacKinnon, M., author. Brownlee, B. G., author. |
| Description | 1 online resource (15 unnumbered pages) : graphs. |
| Catalogue number |
|
| Subject terms | Freshwater fish Pollutants Oil sands |