Volatile Aromatic Organic Compounds

Benzene presence found in groundwater and soil due to 37 years of improper disposal of waste by Green Monster, Inc.

Protecting the environment from toxic contaminants such as pesticide, herbicide, and other Solvents are vital to the survival of the inhabitants of the respective environment. This is important because such contaminants, when released into the environment can create devastating health problems such as cancer in humans. This paper will evaluate three of the many carcinogenic chemicals that have the propensity to cause cancer and other health problems. Therefore, the paper will evaluate Agent Orange, DDT, and Benzene.

Protecting the environment from toxic contaminants such as pesticide, herbicide and other Solvents are vital to the survival of the inhabitants of the respective environment. This is important because such contaminants, when released into the environment can create devastating health problems such as cancer in humans. This paper will evaluate three of the many carcinogenic chemicals that have the propensity to cause cancer and other health problems. Therefore, the paper will evaluate Agent Orange, DDT, and Benzene.

Purpose: To use indicators to test for the presence of organic compounds in certain substances.

Brominated vegetable oil is a common substance found in many citrus soda drinks such as Mountain Dew, Powerade, Fanta orange, Squirt, and Sunkist. BVO, short for brominated vegetable oil, is used to prevent the citrus flavoring from separating from the rest of the soda. Though it is found in almost 10 percent of american soft drinks it can have bad affects on the human body. The bromine in this oil can build up in the body and can cause reduced fertility, birth defects, skin rashes, severe acne, and even psychotic symptoms. Most people who drink these sodas are unaware of the effects it may have on their body and may not even find out before it’s too late.

In the article they used hay to control soil erosion along highways and back roads, as it turns out hay can also be used to soak up oil spills and leave clean water behind. For the lab, we are thinking to use hay and play-do (in the use of clay) to try to clean up the oil.

VOCs are more complex hydrocarbons than CH4 that are emitted from biogenic and anthropogenic sources. Biogenic VOCs include alkanes, alkenes, alcohols, aldehydes, etc. Generally, anthropogenic VOCs are diverse and also include aromatic hydrocarbons, most importantly benzene, toluene, ethylene and the isomers of xylene as major components (up to 75%).5 To say the least, there is a wide chemical composition variety of VOCs released to the atmosphere. For my project centered in the oil and gas industry, I will focus on the aromatic compounds BTEX. Studying the isotopic ratio of VOCs can provide insight into the photochemical transformation and physical processing of ambient VOCs.10 Recent isotope studies on VOCs has shown the stable isotopes of C within the compounds is consistent with the kinetic isotope effect.10 Thus, the fractionation between the emission and the observation can determine the extent of photochemical processing, other words the photochemical age.10 The study of isotopes within VOCs has recently developed with Rudolph, et al., 1997 as a method was introduced to measure VOCs at low mixing ratios (3 to 5 orders of magnitude smaller than CH4).

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Primary pollutants detected consisted mostly of hydrocarbons that were emitted into the atmosphere from evaporated or burned oil on the water surface, and nitrogen oxides, emitted by both the flaring of the natural gas and from the clean-up processes close near the spill site. Once in the atmosphere, these compounds photochemically reacted to produce secondary pollutants such as Ozone and peroxacetyl nitrates (PANs) (Middlebrook et al., 2011). Other pollutants were also detected, such as secondary organic aerosols (SOA), a product of intermediate volatile organic compounds, and soot particles, black carbon and carbon monoxide from in situ burning of oil or from the cleanup processes (Gouw et al., 2011).

Organic compounds are compounds that contain bonds between carbon atoms. In the 1800s, people called compounds that were created by organisms “organic” believing they were different from the compounds in non living things. Even though there is a better understanding of the topic now, the term still stands. Some examples of organic compounds are: carbohydrates, proteins, lipids and nucleic acids. Living things use carbohydrates as their main source of energy. Plants, some animals, and other organisms also use carbohydrates for structural purposes. The breakdown of sugars, such as glucose, supplies immediate energy for cell activities. Many organisms store extra sugar as complex carbohydrates known as starches. Starch is only found on plants.

Reinhold, D., Vishwanathan, S., Park, JJ., Oh, D., Saunders, FM. 2010. Assessment of plant-driven removal of emerging organic pollutants by duckweed. Chemosphere [Internet]. [Cited 2015 Nov 15] 80(7) Available from: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0045653510006363

These particles have a massively extensive surface zone in degree to a given volume. It has been enlisted that one cubic inch of colloidal mud may have 200–500 square feet of iota surface zone. Adsorption happens accordingly of an interest between the designed and soil particles. A pesticide that adsorbs to soil particles is more negative to move from the application site than a designed that does not adsorb unfalteringly to the earth (Fishel,F.M, 2014).

Emily, an Australian dependably realized that she would have a vocation to do with nourishment, since her folks having filled in as gourmet specialists, were ceaselessly trying different things with new formulas for sauces and fixings, and packaging them for blessings. Growing up around this nourishment cherishing lifestyle is the thing that drove Emily to begin a little domestic venture producing an assortment of fixings. Today, Emily possesses 'The Aromatic Condiment Shop' and a little plant in Perth. Her items utilize natural fixings and are ensured to not make the utilization of additives. Emily now wishes to grow her business to Japan as she is sure that her items will be mainstream, which incorporate bean stew sauces, glues and jams. She trusts that the most ideal path forward

They tested the carbon dioxide absorption ability of many types of benzene-linked amines, ranging from simple benzylamine to xylylenediamines. Then the group exposed the best-performing amines to open air for two weeks to figure out the amount of water absorbed relative to carbon dioxide. The researchers concluded that the xylylenediamines were the most promising: They absorbed absolutely no water. In comparison, monoethanolamine, the typical compound used in the process of amine scrubbing, absorbed three molecules of water for every molecule of carbon. The xylylenediamine carbon dioxide product precipitated as a white solid that had no water when the research group dissolved the best-performing xylylenediamine in water and exposed the solution to

Organic compounds are, by definition, any chemical compound containing carbon. These compounds include carbohydrates, polysaccharides, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids. Each one of these compounds has a different purpose. Carbohydrates give energy to cells when consumed. Lipids are basically the fats of a cell. Proteins are the building blocks of muscle in a cell. Nucleic acids are used to transfer genetic information from one cell to the other.