Chemometric analysis of gas chromatography with flame ionisation detection chromatograms: a novel method for classification of petroleum products

Nikoline Juul Nielsen, D. Ballabio, G. Tomasi, R. Todeschini, Jan H. Christensen

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    Abstract

    Most oil characterisation procedures are time consuming, labour intensive and utilise only part of the acquired chemical information. Oil spill fingerprinting with multivariate data processing represents a fast and objective evaluation procedure, where the entire chromatographic profile is used. Methods for oil classification should be robust towards changes imposed on the spill fingerprint by short-term weathering, i.e. dissolution and evaporation processes in the hours following a spill. We propose a methodology for the classification of petroleum products. The method consists of: chemical analysis; data clean-up by baseline removal, retention time alignment and normalisation; recognition of oil type by classification followed by initial source characterisation. A classification model based on principal components and quadratic discrimination robust towards the effect of short-term weathering was established. The method was tested successfully on real spill and source samples.

    Original languageEnglish
    JournalJournal of Chromatography A
    Volume1238
    Pages (from-to)121-127
    Number of pages7
    ISSN0021-9673
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 18 May 2012

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