Publications by authors named "Ben Kele"
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- New psychoactive substances (NPS) pose a public health challenge due to their rapid emergence and insufficient toxicity data; wastewater analysis can assist in monitoring these substances alongside forensic data.
- A method was developed to detect 71 different types of NPS using liquid-chromatography tandem mass spectrometry, with important factors for electrospray ionization optimized through experimental design.
- The validated method was applied to wastewater samples from a 2022 music festival in Queensland, successfully identifying several NPS, demonstrating the method's effectiveness for chemical analysis in real-world settings.
Coal seam gas (CSG) is the extraction of methane gas that is desorbed from the coal seam and brought to the surface using a dewatering and depressurisation process within the saturated coalbed. The extracted water is often referred to as co-produced CSG water. In this study, co-produced water from the coal seam of the Bowen Basin (QLD, Australia) was characterised by high concentration levels of Na(+) (1156 mg/L), low concentrations of Ca(2+) (28.
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