Tracking alterations of alkyl side chains of N1 species in heavy crude oil after anaerobic biodegradation with negative‐ion electrospray ionization coupled with high‐field Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry

Sanbao Su, Hao Dong, Gaoming Yu, Dujie Hou, Quan Shi, Ibrahim Banat, Zhengliang Wang, Yong'an Gu, Fan Zhang, Yuehui She

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Abstract


Rationale

Heteroatomic compounds are relatively abundant and believed to be bio‐resistant in heavy crude oils. However, few studies have focused on the biodegradation of these heteroatomic compounds.
Methods

Heteroatoms, especially N1 species, in a blank crude oil and in three treated oils co‐incubated with anaerobic sulfate‐reducing bacteria, nitrate‐reducing bacteria and fermentative consortia cultures were detected using negative‐ion electrospray ionization coupled with high‐field Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry.
Results

The relative abundance of N1 species in the three treated oils decreased, while the relative abundance of O2 species increased. Remarkably, the relative abundances of N1 species with low carbon number increased and those with higher carbon number decreased.
Conclusions

These results revealed that the anaerobic biodegradations of heavy crude oil occurred. With direct evidences, the degradations of alkyl side chains of N1 species by the anaerobic microbes could be deduced.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)875-882
Number of pages8
JournalRapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry
Volume33
Issue number9
Early online date28 Feb 2019
DOIs
Publication statusPublished (in print/issue) - 15 May 2019

Bibliographical note

Funding Information: National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant/Award Numbers: 51474034, 51504221, 51574038 and 51634008 Funding Information: This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 51504221, 51474034, 51574038 and 51634008). The authors thank the technical personnel in the oil field for kindly collecting samples, and Professor Shi for the instructions and suggestions during ESI FT‐ICR MS analysis, mass calibration and data processing. Publisher Copyright: © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Copyright: Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

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