{"title":"Distribution characteristics and source of BTEX in groundwater in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, P. R. China","authors":"Chunyan Liu, Jichao Sun, Ji-hong Jing, Ying Zhang, Weijing Guo","doi":"10.26599/jgse.2016.9280028","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":": In order to find out the distribution characteristics of BTEX in groundwater, which include Benzene, Toluene, Ethylbenzene, p-Xylene, m-Xylene, and o-Xylene, 82 groups of groundwater samples and 10 surface water samples collected from Guangzhou in Guangdong during 2005 to 2008 were tested by gas chromatography and mass spectrum(GC/MS). The result showed that the BTEX concentration in groundwater does not exceed the standard. The detection rate of BTEX is 14.63% in groundwater, and the total BTEX concentration is lower than 9.5 µ g/L. Of 6 kinds of BTEX, toluene had the highest detection rate (12.20%) and detection value (9.5 µ g/L), which was followed by Benzene, with the detection rate of 3.65%, and detection value of 4.9 µ g/L respectively; most of samples with BTEX are distributed in Huangpu district, Baiyun district, Huadu district and other industrialized areas; this spatial distribution and urban distribution have obvious consistency. With economic development, plant expansion and population growth led to a large amount of waste water discharge, and infrastructure construction is lagging behind, indicating that rapid urbanization is a major driving force of BTEX in groundwater, and through the analysis of a typical area, it is found that benzene system surface water infiltration was an important source of BTEX in groundwater of Guangzhou.","PeriodicalId":43567,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Groundwater Science and Engineering","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7000,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Groundwater Science and Engineering","FirstCategoryId":"89","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.26599/jgse.2016.9280028","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"WATER RESOURCES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
: In order to find out the distribution characteristics of BTEX in groundwater, which include Benzene, Toluene, Ethylbenzene, p-Xylene, m-Xylene, and o-Xylene, 82 groups of groundwater samples and 10 surface water samples collected from Guangzhou in Guangdong during 2005 to 2008 were tested by gas chromatography and mass spectrum(GC/MS). The result showed that the BTEX concentration in groundwater does not exceed the standard. The detection rate of BTEX is 14.63% in groundwater, and the total BTEX concentration is lower than 9.5 µ g/L. Of 6 kinds of BTEX, toluene had the highest detection rate (12.20%) and detection value (9.5 µ g/L), which was followed by Benzene, with the detection rate of 3.65%, and detection value of 4.9 µ g/L respectively; most of samples with BTEX are distributed in Huangpu district, Baiyun district, Huadu district and other industrialized areas; this spatial distribution and urban distribution have obvious consistency. With economic development, plant expansion and population growth led to a large amount of waste water discharge, and infrastructure construction is lagging behind, indicating that rapid urbanization is a major driving force of BTEX in groundwater, and through the analysis of a typical area, it is found that benzene system surface water infiltration was an important source of BTEX in groundwater of Guangzhou.
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