ORGANIC-COMPOUNDS IN AN INDUSTRIAL WASTE-WATER - THEIR TRANSPORT INTO SEDIMENTS
ORGANIC-COMPOUNDS IN AN INDUSTRIAL WASTE-WATER - THEIR TRANSPORT INTO SEDIMENTS
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DOI:
10.1021/es60171a007
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发表时间:
1980-01-01
影响因子:
11.4
通讯作者:
HITES, RA
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作者:
LOPEZAVILA, V;HITES, RA
The wastewater from a small speciality chemicals manufacturing plant located on the Pawtuxet River (Rhode Island, USA) has contaminated the water and sediment of that river, the Pawtuxet Cove, the Providence River and (to a lesser extent) the Narragansett Bay. Since the compounds found in this system cover a wide range of functionalities, polarities and water solubilites, a detailed study of this system has allowed us to assess the environmental behavior of several compound types in 1 aquatic system. The aqueous concentrations of the various compounds follow the rules of simple dilution and those compounds with the highest octanol-water partition coefficients (log P) are strongly associated with the particulate matter in the water and are found in the sediment at the greatest distance from the plant. The sediment concentrations (C) of a given compound can be predicted from its log P value and from its concentration in the wastewater (C0) by log (C0/C) = b0 + b2(dist/log P) where dist is the distance of the sediment sample from the plant and b0 and b2 are constants fitted to the data.