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Bioakkumulation of selected organochlorines in bats and tits: Influence of chemistry and biology
1995
Streit, B. | Winter, S. | Nagel, A. (Frankfurt Univ. (Germany). Dept. of Ecology and Evolution)
Chemicals regulation - Application of the criteria for classification of existing chemicals as dangerous for the environment
1995
Knacker, T. | Schallnass, H.J. | Klaschka, U. | Ahlers, J. (ECT Oekotoxikologie GmbH, Bad Soden (Germany))
Commentary Article: Regulatory advances - Guide values for contaminated sites in Baden-Wuerttemberg
1994
Trenck, K.T. von der (Landesanstalt fuer Umweltschutz Baden-Wuerttemberg, Karlsruhe (Germany)) | Ruf, J. | Flittner, M.
The treatment of hazardous sites in Baden-Wuerttemberg is based on three legal documents: the state waste disposal act (LAbfG, 1990), the assessment committee directive (Kommissions VO, 1990), and the guide values directive (UM and SM B-W, 1993). The guide values directive was commonly issued by the Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs and the Ministry of the Environment of the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg (UM and SM B-W, 1993) and contains a three-level hierarchy of numerical criteria and rules which serve as both screening levels during the investigation and as remediation objectives. The decision for the appropriate level of remediation is based on feasibility and environmental balance considerations. The levels are ordered as follows: - 1. (Background-Values) On principle, all remediations have to be based first on background levels. In the case of lack of feasibility or negative environmental balance for level-1 objectives use-specific requirements are considered next. - 2. (Assessment-Values for Worst Case Exposure Conditions) The generic requirements underlying level 2 afford appropriate protection for humans regarding the most sensitive uses of the environment. At least four resources are considered on this level: Groundwater as such and its use, the health of humans on contaminated sites, and soil with respect to growth and quality of plants. Barriers against migration of the contaminants, the effect of dilution, and abandonment of certain uses, etc., are not taken into consideration on level 2. - 3. (Site-Specific Requirements) Lack of feasibility or a negative environmental balance of level-2 objectives lead to consideration of site-specific circumstances which may alleviate the requirements.
Mostrar más [+] Menos [-]Deposition of semivolatile organic compounds to spruce needles. 1. Calculation of dry and wet fluxes
1994
Umlauf, G. (Bayreuth Univ. (Germany). Lehrstuhl fuer Oekologische Chemie und Geochemie) | McLachlan, M.
The deposition of atmospheric tetrachlorobenzene, pentachlorobenzene, hexachlorobenzene, alpha-HCH, gamma-HCH, DDT, DDE and the PCB congeners 52, 101, 138, 153 and 180 to spruce needles (Picea abies) was estimated for a period of 9 months. Accumulation in spruce as a result of dry gaseous deposition, particle bound deposition and wet deposition was calculated on the basis of the corresponding deposition rates and the compounds' concentrations in the different atmospheric compartments. The comparison of the calculated values with the concentrations of the compounds measured in 9-month-old spruce needles showed that for many compounds each deposition pathway could explain a large part of the concentrations found in the needles.
Mostrar más [+] Menos [-]Surfactant solubilization of hydrophobic compounds in soil and water. 1. Dodecylsulphate monomer and micellar partition coefficients for 28 polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) (41)
1994
Rahman, M.S. (Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, Dhaka (Bangladesh). Inst. of Food and Radiation Biology) | Paya-Perez, A.B. | Skejo-Andresen, H. | Larsen, B.R.
Reductions in the apparent soil-water partition coefficients (K(d)* ) for 28 polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) caused by the surfactant sodium dodecylsulphate (SDS) in the aqueous phase were studied. Above the critical micelle concentration (CMC) of the surfactant, K(d)* was reduced by 2-3 orders of magnitude, but even far below CMC at environmentally relevant surfacant concentrations significant reductions in Kd3 were observed. The plot of the soil-water partition coefficient (K(d)) divided by K(d)* versus the concentration of SDS allowed for the calculation of monomer (K(mn)(oc)) and micellar (K(mc)(oc)) surfactant-water parrition coefficients normalized to organic carbon for each PCB congener. K(mn)(oc) values were comparable with published values for the partition of PCBs between natural dissolved organic matter and lake water. K(mc)(oc) values were up to 30 times higher than K(mn)(oc) values and comparable with published octanol-water distribution coefficients. The findings of the present study underline the potential of surfactants at concentrations below their CMC to mobilize otherwise strongly bound hydrophobic compounds in soil-water systems.
Mostrar más [+] Menos [-]Determination of microbial activity in activated sewage sludge by dimethyl sulphoxide reduction - Evaluation of method and application
1994
Sklorz, M. (Bayreuth Univ. (Germany). Lehrstuhl fuer Oekologische Chemie und Geochemie) | Binert, J.
A method was developed to determine the dimethyl sulphoxide (DMSO) reduction rate in activated sewage sludge at nearly natural conditions. Linearity of microbially produced dimethyl sulphide with incubation time and sample size was shown. Apart from a fast, sensitive and highly reproducible automatic analysis of dimethyl sulphide, simultaneous determination of mineralisation, respiration and phenol degradation rates was possible. The DMSO reduction rate of samples taken from a municipal sewage plant ranged between 2 and 3 micromol/(g dry matter per h), respiration and mineralisation rates between 30 and 80 micromol/(g per h). Added (13)C(6)-phenol was completely degradated after 96 h of incubation. A half-life of 14 h was calculated assuming first order decay. Dose response curves were obtained by incubating samples for 2, 6, 25, and 96 hours after addition of pentachlorophenol. At an incubation time of 6 h, the EC(50) values ranged from 20 mg/L (DMSO reduction) to 30 mg/L (phenol degradation) up to 180 mg/L (respiration and mineralisation). Increasing the incubation time to 96 h resulted in a lower EC(50) of 9 mg/L for DMSO reduction, whereas it increased to 500 mg/L for respiration and mineralisation.
Mostrar más [+] Menos [-]Inhibibition of ethoxyresorufin-O-deethylase (EROD) activity in mixtures of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin and polychlorinated biphenyls - EROD acitivity as biomarker in TCDD and PCB risk assessment
1995
Tysklind, M. | Bosveld, A.T.C. | Andersson, P. | Verhallen, E. | Sinnige, T. | Seinen, W. | Rappe, C. | Berg, M. van den (Umea Univ. (Sweden). Inst. of Environmental Chemistry)
On-line speciation of arsenical compounds in fish and mussel extracts by HPLC-ICP-MS
1994
Caroli, S. (Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome (Italy)) | La Torre, F. | Petrucci, F. | Violante, N.
The separation and determination of sub-micromol per litre levels of six environmentally significant As compounds was accomplished by means of high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) combined online with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). The species of interest (arsenite and arsenate, monomethylarsonic acid, dimethylarsinic acid, arsenobetaine and arsenocholine) were quantified in fish and mussel extracts after separation on a Dionex AS7 column equipped with an on-guard AG7 column using a bicarbonate buffer as the mobile phase in a gradient mode. The species thus eluted were directly forwarded to the ICP-MS detector. The detection power of the overall system allows each As form to be determined at concentrations as low a 0.0013 - 0.0027 micromol per litre.
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