| Title: | Analysis of polychlorinated biphenyls adsorbed on plastic pellets: Comparison of extraction techniques |
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| Authors: | ID Pflieger, Marilyne (Mentor) More about this mentor... 
ID Makorič, Petra (Author) |
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| Files: |  Petra_Makoric.pdf (1,95 MB)
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Master's thesis/paper |
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| Typology: | 2.09 - Master's Thesis |
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| Organization: | FZO - Faculty of Environmental Sciences
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| Abstract: | Plastic resin pellets are one of the main components of plastic fragments in the marine environment. They are small granules, generally cylinder or disk-shaped, with a diameter of a few millimetres used as industrial raw material for the production of plastic manufactured items. Resin pellets can be unintentionally released to the environment during manufacturing and transport, and can reach the ocean through processes such as surface run-off. Because of their environmental persistence, they are widely distributed in the oceans and on the beaches, all over the globe. Plastic pellets are also a sink of toxic compounds such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) that are present in the environment.
During this thesis, we designed a protocol for extracting and analysing PCBs from marine plastic resin pellets. Although pressurized fluid extraction (PFE) is not commonly used in the field of microplastics, it is a reliable and efficient technique applied in other research areas. Thus, this method was tested in this work. PCBs were extracted from plastic pellets with PFE at 65 ºC and under 100 bar with hexane. Then, the extracts were concentrated to 1 mL, cleaned up on Florisil cartridge through solid-phase extraction. Prior to analysis on GC-ECD, the cleaned extracts were concentrated again.
In the second part of the thesis, the following four extraction techniques of PCBs from plastic resin pellets were compared: Soxhlet extraction, PFE, ultrasonication and maceration. The obtain results have shown that the best efficiency and repeatability of extraction is achieved with PFE. In case of Soxhlet extraction, the results were unrepeatable. Maceration and ultrasonication had 40-45 % lower extraction efficiencies than PFE. |
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| Keywords: | PCB, plastic resin pellets, pressurized fluid extraction, Soxhlet, maceration, ultrasonication, microplastics |
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| Place of publishing: | Nova Gorica |
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| Year of publishing: | 2017 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/RUNG-3115-36c11832-ceee-ba8d-013d-799c62cfa944 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 4822267 |
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| NUK URN: | URN:SI:UNG:REP:RXKKHIWZ |
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| Publication date in RUNG: | 22.06.2017 |
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