{"title":"Ion chromatography and its application to environmental analysis: A review","authors":"B.A. Colenutt, P.J. Trenchard","doi":"10.1016/0143-148X(85)90007-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0143-148X(85)90007-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Ion chromatography is a technique which has developed rapidly in the last few years. The development of the method and instrumentation is considered. Particular emphasis is given to applications of significance in environmental analysis. Ion chromatography is shown to have significant advantages over alternative techniques in the analysis of anions. The advantages are in the speed of analysis, the range of species which may be determined in a single analysis and the lower concentrations which can be detedted.</p><p>Cations can also be analysed readily. The technique has some advantages over alternative methods but these are not as marked as for anion analysis.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100484,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Pollution Series B, Chemical and Physical","volume":"10 2","pages":"Pages 77-96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0143-148X(85)90007-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91724350","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Change in PCB (Clophen A 50) composition when transported from sediment to air in aquatic model systems","authors":"Per Larsson","doi":"10.1016/0143-148X(85)90025-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0143-148X(85)90025-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>PCBs (Clophen A 50) were added to the sediment of laboratory model systems composed of sediment, water, benthic macroinvertebrates and fish. Part of the PCBs left the sediment and a concentration of 0·2–0·7 μg litre<sup>−1</sup> was obtained in the water.</p><p>The transport of PCBs from water to air includes at least two processes: volatilization and jet drop transport. Volatilization (as indicated by PCBs trapped on polyurethane foam filters) resulted in a transport of 0·2–1·0 μg PCBs a week to air. Less chlorinated PCBs, i.e. tetrachlorobiphenyls, were transported to the air to a greater extent than more chlorine-substituted PCBs.</p><p>Transport of PCBs by jet drops from bursting bubbles (as indicated by the amount of PCBs found on jet drop impactors) was of the same magnitude as volatilization, but the proportion of PCB compounds trapped by the impactor plates was identical with that of sediment and water. The process seems mainly to transfer PCBs containing bulk water and particles to the air.</p><p>The results suggest that the contaminated sediment of lakes and watercourses may act as a source of PCBs to the atmosphere.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100484,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Pollution Series B, Chemical and Physical","volume":"9 2","pages":"Pages 81-94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0143-148X(85)90025-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86435378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La radioactivité γ naturelle et ses modifications par l'activité miniére uranifére en bretagne méridionale et vendée, France","authors":"Lucien Barbaroux","doi":"10.1016/0143-148X(85)90039-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0143-148X(85)90039-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Uranium mining has increased the gamma radioactivity by up to 80 times in some areas. The activity also varies, by a factor of 5, with rock composition. The most important problems arise from the dispersion of unshielded radioactive material and the lack of rehabilitation of old mining areas. The continued existence of these problems reveals the inadequacy of existing laws, the past absence of social responsibility and a serious gap in the measures for the protection of public health.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100484,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Pollution Series B, Chemical and Physical","volume":"9 1","pages":"Pages 41-69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0143-148X(85)90039-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74020428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sorption of mercury(II) by manganese(IV) oxide","authors":"P. Thanabalasingam, W.F. Pickering","doi":"10.1016/0143-148X(85)90009-6","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0143-148X(85)90009-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Manganese(IV) oxide avidly adsorbed mercury(II) species, with freshly prepared material (HMO; capacity, 280 mmol kg<sup>−1</sup> abstracting most of the Hg present in 1 to 12 mg litre<sup>−1</sup> Hg(II) solutions. α cryptomelane also adsorbed in accordance with a Langmuir isotherm (capacity, 250 mmol kg<sup>−1</sup>) but the binding constant (4400) was only 1% of the HMO value. A λ MnO<sub>2</sub> sample had an adsorption capacity of 15 mmol kg<sup>−1</sup>. Uptake was not influenced by pH over the range 5 to 11, but decreased in the 5 to 3 region due to protonation of sites. The amount adsorbed was reduced in the presence of chloride ions, with the extent, and pH of minimum uptake, being a function of Cl<sup>−</sup> level. As HgCl<sub>2</sub> and Hg(OH)<sub>2</sub> are the dominant solution species, and as protons were not released in the adsorption process, it is proposed that the adsorption mechanism involves migration of the Hg(II) species into the internal structure of the Mn(IV) oxide, where they either undergo ligand exchange with surface hydroxyl groups or are transformed into a solid hydroxy phase. The presence of sulphate ions further lowered Hg uptake. Extraction studies showed that adsorbed Hg could be totally released by EDTA, DTPA or 0·5<span>m</span> HCl. Decreasing quantities were displacedby 1<span>m</span> HNO<sub>3</sub>, Na<sub>4</sub>P<sub>2</sub>O<sub>7</sub>, Na<sub>3</sub>cit. Equilibration with 0·5<span>m</span> NaCl extracted about half, while 1<span>m</span> NH<sub>4</sub>NO<sub>3</sub> or CH<sub>3</sub>COONH<sub>4</sub> recovered < 5%. It was concluded that the formation of manganese(IV) oxides in waterways would aid the maintenance of low solution-Hg levels.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100484,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Pollution Series B, Chemical and Physical","volume":"10 2","pages":"Pages 115-128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0143-148X(85)90009-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89470316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The use of plume dispersion modelling for viable aerosols from an activated sludge sewage treatment plant","authors":"Janet A. Holden, Lyndon R. Babcock","doi":"10.1016/0143-148X(85)90034-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0143-148X(85)90034-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Predictions of the emissions of airborne total viable particle (TVP) concentrations from sewage are of concern due to possible adverse human health effects. The work presented here is an assessment of the feasibility of using environmental data to develop a plume dispersion model for the prediction of airborne TVP concentrations in the vicinity of an activated sludge sewage treatment plant. The monitoring data used were collected during an epidemiology study of the health of residents in the vicinity of an activated sludge sewage treatment plant located in a suburb of Chicago. Two types of modelling approaches were explored: dispersion modelling such as the Gaussian plume dispersion model and statistical modelling. The results of the statistical model have been reported elsewhere. The Gaussian modelling approach was limited because emission rates and rate of microbial die-off could not be measured, and techniques for their estimation proved inadequate. The die-off rate is normally expressed as a negative rate of change, but only positive coefficients were found. Although microbial growth in air is possible under certain conditions, it is thought that high background TVP concentrations due to many undefined sources of TVP in the study area were chiefly responsible for the positive coefficients. Until a better method is found for estimating the ambient total viable decay rate and defining background concentrations, the Gaussian plume dispersion modelling technique does not appear to provide a more useful approach for estimating TVP concentrations downwind from an activated sludge sewage treatment plant than does statistical modelling. Rather, the modelling process served to identify deficiencies in the application of the Gaussian plume model to ground level source aerobiological emissions when there is a significant background concentration.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100484,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Pollution Series B, Chemical and Physical","volume":"9 3","pages":"Pages 215-235"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0143-148X(85)90034-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83084119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ch. Rav-Acha, E. Choshen (Goldstein), A. Serri, B. Limoni
{"title":"The rôle of formation and reduction of THM and chlorite concentrations in the disinfection of water with Cl2 and ClO2","authors":"Ch. Rav-Acha, E. Choshen (Goldstein), A. Serri, B. Limoni","doi":"10.1016/0143-148X(85)90015-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0143-148X(85)90015-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Water disinfected by chlorine produces trihalomethanes (THM), while chlorine dioxide, an alternative to chlorine, is reduced mainly to undesirable chlorite. Mixtures of ClO<sub>2</sub> and Cl<sub>2</sub> may successfully reduce the formation of both THM and chlorite in the absence of bromide. When Lake Kinneret water in Israel was studied, however, it was found that such mixtures caused only a minor reduction in the formation of THM compared with chlorine alone. This is attributed to the effect of bromide present in the water of Lake Kinneret. The formation of THM and chlorite could, however, be satisfactorily reduced (by about 60% and 90%, respectively), if chlorine dioxide were allowed to react in water with the THM precursors before chlorine was introduced.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100484,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Pollution Series B, Chemical and Physical","volume":"10 1","pages":"Pages 47-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0143-148X(85)90015-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83110961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The mobility of soluble fluoride in soils","authors":"W.F. Pickering","doi":"10.1016/0143-148X(85)90004-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0143-148X(85)90004-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The factors which promote retention or release of soluble fluoride species by soils have been reviewed with the aim of identifying key processes. The topics considered include fluoride levels in soils, mobility as demonstrated in leaching studies, and fluoride adsorption by soils. The role of competing chemical equilibria has been considered, through discussion of chemical interactions involving fluoride species and soil components such as clays, hydrous oxides (Al, Fe, Mn), organic matter, calcite and quartz.</p><p>The mobility of fluoride tends to be a function of soil type, system pH and F levels, with retention being favoured in acidic sediments containing clays and poorly ordered hydrous oxides of aluminium.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100484,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Pollution Series B, Chemical and Physical","volume":"9 4","pages":"Pages 281-308"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0143-148X(85)90004-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91205951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alistair I. Clark, Alun E. McIntyre, John N. Lester, Roger Perry
{"title":"Air quality impact assessment at an airport","authors":"Alistair I. Clark, Alun E. McIntyre, John N. Lester, Roger Perry","doi":"10.1016/0143-148X(85)90037-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0143-148X(85)90037-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100484,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Pollution Series B, Chemical and Physical","volume":"9 1","pages":"1-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0143-148X(85)90037-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72292424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B.E. Davies , P.C. Elwood , J. Gallacher , R.C. Ginnever
{"title":"The relationships between heavy metals in garden soils and house dusts in an old lead mining area of North Wales, Great Britain","authors":"B.E. Davies , P.C. Elwood , J. Gallacher , R.C. Ginnever","doi":"10.1016/0143-148X(85)90002-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0143-148X(85)90002-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Lead in house dust may be an important source of this metal for children and it has been suggested that the mineral components of dust as well as lead and other trace elements are derived, in part, from garden soil. This proposed relationship between soil and dust trace metal composition was investigated in north Wales, in an area where lead mining has caused intensive and extensive heavy metal contamination of agricultural and garden soils, and in a control area. Paired garden and house dust samples were collected from the houses of random samples of 90 subjects and were analysed for Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn. Compared with soils from the control village the contaminated soils were enriched (ratios of geometric means) by factors of Cd = 6·7, Cu = 1·1, Pb = 14·1 and Zn = 3·8. The similar ratios for dust were Cd = 1·2, Cu = 1·1, Pb = 1·9 and Zn = 1·1. Correlation analysis suggested that soil contributes little Cd, Cu or Zn to dust but 27% of the variability in dust Pb could be explained by soil Pb and the gradient of the log-dust Pb/log-soil Pb regression was 0·3. Subsequent resampling in 11 houses demonstrated little change over two months in dust Cd, Cu or Zn concentrations. Pb levels did change and were poorly correlated in the two sample sets, which may be explained by differences in the amounts of contaminated soil carried into the house before the dust was sampled.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100484,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Pollution Series B, Chemical and Physical","volume":"9 4","pages":"Pages 255-266"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0143-148X(85)90002-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78693606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The influence of meteorological parameters on atmospheric volatile and particulate mercury distribution","authors":"Ronny Dumarey, Richard Dams","doi":"10.1016/0143-148X(85)90020-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0143-148X(85)90020-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A simple amalgamation/CVAAS technique is applied to investigate the influence of various meteorological parameters on the atmospheric distribution of mercury. For the volatile and particulate fractions, a clear relationship is encountered, respectively, with the ambient temperature and the amount of total suspended particulates. These parameters are of major importance, masking the effect of others. For the residential area studied, an average total mercury concentration of 6 ng per cubic metre is calculated. The particulate fraction amounts to 1–30%. A source contribution from a neighbouring industrial region is observed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100484,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Pollution Series B, Chemical and Physical","volume":"10 4","pages":"Pages 277-285"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0143-148X(85)90020-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73156919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}