Concentrations of heavy metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in river sediments: geochemical background, man's influence and environmental impact

GeoJournal ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 417-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
U. Förstner ◽  
G. Müller
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
River Sediments ◽  
Geochemical Background ◽  
Polycyclic Aromatic

Negative Impacts of Biochars on Urease Activity: High pH, Heavy Metals, Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, or Free Radicals?

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (21) ◽  
pp. 12740-12747 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Liu ◽  
Qunying Dai ◽  
Xiuqi Jin ◽  
Xudong Dong ◽  
Juan Peng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Free Radicals ◽  
Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Urease Activity ◽  
High Ph ◽  
Polycyclic Aromatic ◽  
Negative Impacts

scholarly journals B-Cyclodextrin Polyurethanes Copolymerised with Beetroot Fibers (Bio-Polymer), for the Removal of Organic and Inorganic Contaminants from Water

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamil Rima ◽  
Karine Assaker
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Methylene Blue ◽  
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Water Treatment ◽  
Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Rhodamine B ◽  
Industrial Wastewater ◽  
Contaminated Groundwater ◽  
Inorganic Contaminants ◽  
Polycyclic Aromatic

<p>In this study, B-Cyclodextrinn polymerized with beetroot fibers (Bio-polymer), was prepared and applied to the removal of organic and inorganic contaminants from wastewater. An investigation into the use of cross-linked cyclodextrin polyurethanes copolymerised with beetroot fibers as adsorbents for organic pollutants and heavy metals has yielded very useful results which may have an impact in future water treatment applications.</p> The Biopolymer was tested in water contaminated by dyes, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and heavy metals. The effectiveness to eliminate dyes such as methylene blue and Rhodamine B with concentrations around 100 ppm was more than 99%, while the pyrene,which was chosen as an example among PAHs, showed a potential of elimination exceeding the 97% for solutions of 10 ppm. Also, heavy metals, such as Lead, Zn, and Cu, were tested and showed an efficacy exceeding the 99.8%. The results indicated that the biopolymer developed in this study has the potential to be a promising material for the removal of mixed pollutants from industrial wastewater or from contaminated groundwater.

scholarly journals The Environmental Impact of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: Mechanism of Extraction by Bio-Surfactant in a Microwave

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 576-589
Author(s):  
Haroun Ali Adannou ◽  
Nayaou Kadidja Kamane ◽  
Samba Koukouare Prosper ◽  
Dorim Ngarbaroum ◽  
Allaramadji Ngarmadji Constant ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Polycyclic Aromatic

scholarly journals Isolation and characterization of bacteria with multiple traits: Hydrocarbon degradation, antibiotic-resistant and metal tolerant

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 3789-3795 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neeta Bhagat ◽  
Pranita Roy ◽  
Sohini Singh ◽  
Tanu Allen
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Soil Pollution ◽  
Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Antibiotic Resistant ◽  
Morphological Studies ◽  
Isolation And Characterization ◽  
Degrading Bacteria ◽  
Polycyclic Aromatic

Increasing soil pollution all over the world has instigated global concerns as enormous quantities of toxic chemicals and heavy metals like cadmium, lead, mercury, petrochemicals, insecticides, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and chlorophenols are finding their way into the environment, affecting the land and soil, causing soil pollution and thus posing a threat and menace to health and well- being of people and ecosystem. The ubiquitous dissemination, low bioavailability, high perseverance of contaminants like poly-hydrocarbon and metals in soil have the potentially destructive effects to human health, envisages to study the biodegradation of PAHs (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) and PACs (polycyclic aromatic compounds). The diversity of micro-organisms that diminish the PAHs/PACs can be utilized in the advancement of bioremediation techniques. The role of metal-tolerant, (PAH)-degrading bacteria helps in the biodegradation of organic compounds at miscellaneous polluted sites. The isolation of (PAHs)-degrading bacteria from contaminated soil samples collected from garages and petrol pumps of Delhi and NCR region was carried out in the present study.  Also, the bacterial samples were tested for the tolerance towards 4 heavy metals- arsenic (As), lead (Pb), cadmium (Cd), and mercury (Hg). Morphological studies and biochemical tests were conducted to find the genera of the bacterial samples. The study indicates that hydrocarbons were degraded by the isolates P1, P2, P4, P5, P5*, G1, G3. These isolates were also found to be tolerant at a high concentration of metals (Arsenic, Cadmium, Mercury, and Lead) as minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) was also calculated. Antibiotic susceptibility of the isolates was tested against various antibiotics. Thus the study suggests that the isolates identified as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter baumanii, and Klebsiella pneumoniae are not only PAH-degrading but metal-tolerant and antibiotic-resistant too and are of immense potential for bioremediation of contaminated soils.

scholarly journals Catchment scale assessment of risk posed by traffic generated heavy metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

2017 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 593-600 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yukun Ma ◽  
James McGree ◽  
An Liu ◽  
Kaveh Deilami ◽  
Prasanna Egodawatta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Catchment Scale ◽  
Scale Assessment ◽  
Polycyclic Aromatic

Grain size distribution of metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in silt trap sediments from the combined sewer network of Paris (France)

2005 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 111-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Moilleron ◽  
J. Perez ◽  
S. Garnaud
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Grain Size ◽  
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Size Distribution ◽  
Grain Size Distribution ◽  
Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Sediment Samples ◽  
Sewer Network ◽  
Combined Sewer ◽  
Polycyclic Aromatic

For three years (2001–2003), sediment samples were extracted from about 100 silt traps (STs) spread out all over the combined sewer network of Paris. These STs, whose volume varied from 21 to 325 m3, were cleaned out as soon as their filling capacities were reached. All these sediment samples were analysed for physicochemical parameters (pH, organic matter (OM) content, grain size distribution), total hydrocarbons (THs), 16 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) selected from the priority list of the US-EPA, and heavy metals (Al, Ag, As, Cd, Cu, Cr, Sn, Fe, Mn, Hg, Ni, Pb, Zn). For each silt trap, six sediment samples were extracted before the clean out procedure: three samples were extracted from the sediment surface (5–10 cm depth) and three other samples were extracted from a deeper sediment layer (approximately at 1 m depth). The location of these sampling points allowed us to take into account the possible spatial fluctuation of pollutant loads in each ST. The first results showed that there were some important inter-site variations of pollutant contents. These variations have to be taken into account by the sewer manager for the fate of the ST sediments. Therefore, we decided to assess the grain size distribution of some pollutants. OM, heavy metals and PAHs have been investigated on the five grain size fractions (&gt;20 mm, 8–20 mm, 0.5–8 mm, 50–500 μm, &lt;50 μm) for 9 STs, which have been selected on their heavy metal content basis. This work aims at understanding the distribution of the pollutant contents and at improving the knowledge of the ST sediment pollution.

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