Separation and identification of heterocyclic nitrogen compounds in biooil derived by fast pyrolysis of chicken manure

J Environ Sci Health B. 2011;46(1):51-61. doi: 10.1080/03601234.2010.515506.

Abstract

N-heterocyclics were separated from a biooil, generated by the pyrolysis of chicken manures by column chromatography over neutral alumina and silica, and identified by Pyrolysis Field Ionization Mass Spectrometry (Py-FIMS) and Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry (ESI-MS). Identities of chemical structures, whose presence was indicated by ESI-MS, were confirmed by comparing the Collision-Induced Dissociations (CID's) mass spectra of unknown and standards. The following seven base structures were identified: pyrazine, benzoquinoline, carbazole, phenylpyridine, indole, pyrazole and pyridine. Available hydrogens bonded to ring carbons and nitrogens on the seven N-heterocyclics were increasingly substituted by alkyl groups, mainly methylene groups (m/z 14) to yield mono-, di-, tri- methyl N-heterocyclics. In some instances, longer alkyl chains, such as ethyl, propyl, up to heptyl groups were the substituents.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Biofuels / analysis*
  • Chickens
  • Heterocyclic Compounds / chemistry*
  • Heterocyclic Compounds / isolation & purification*
  • Manure / analysis*
  • Molecular Structure
  • Nitrogen Compounds / chemistry*
  • Nitrogen Compounds / isolation & purification*
  • Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization

Substances

  • Biofuels
  • Heterocyclic Compounds
  • Manure
  • Nitrogen Compounds