Abstract
Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the river water and the sea water were analyzed by the purgetrap-gaschromatography-massspectrometric (P&T-GC/MS) method in order to elucidate the characteristics.
Seventeen river water samples and sixteen sea water samplesin Kawasaki city area were collected. Fortyseven kinds of VOCs were identified in the river water and thirtyone kinds of VOCs were identified in the sea water. We found eighteen kinds of alkane and alkene halogenic compounds in the river water and thirteen kinds of alkane and alkene halogenic compounds in the river water.
A Panamanian tanker Diamond Grace, has broken on July 2,1997 in the Tokyo Bay. A total of 1556Kl of crude oil has been spilled into the sea from the tanker. To determine sources of the drifted oils, n-alkanes (C11-C15), benzene and toluene were identified from a drifted oil in the sea and n-alkanes (C7-Cl5), benzene, toluene and xylenein the crude oil.
