1. Transport of organic contaminants through salinity stratified water masses. A microcosm experiment.
- Author
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Jover E, Gómez-Gutiérrez A, Albaigés J, and Bayona JM
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- Diffusion, Half-Life, Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated analysis, Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated pharmacokinetics, Organophosphorus Compounds analysis, Organophosphorus Compounds pharmacokinetics, Polychlorinated Biphenyls pharmacokinetics, Spain, Triazines analysis, Triazines pharmacokinetics, Water Pollutants, Chemical analysis, Water Pollutants, Chemical pharmacokinetics, Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated chemistry, Organophosphorus Compounds chemistry, Polychlorinated Biphenyls chemistry, Triazines chemistry, Water Pollutants, Chemical chemistry
- Abstract
A salt-wedge stratified microcosm, spiked with 31 target analytes, including PCBs, organochlorine and organophosphorous pesticides, triazines, organophosphate flame retardants and caffeine (an urban wastewater molecular marker), was setup. Compound behaviour was monitored during a four week period, by sampling at six different levels of the water column, in order to understand the transport and loss processes of the different classes of chemical substances. Compound transport from one water body to the other has been positively correlated with diffusion via their molar volume. Target analytes loss has been positively correlated with evaporation via their K(H) and with degradation via their halve-lives. From these two processes, evaporation was found to be predominant using a multiparametric regression.
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- 2007
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