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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 433, Issue -, Pages 491-497Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.06.108
Keywords
Persistent organic pollutants; HCHs; DDTs; PAHs; Metabolites
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41102231]
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The concentrations of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and 16 priority polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were investigated in the sediments from Poyang lake, the largest freshwater lake in China. The results showed that the total concentrations of four hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) isomers. (alpha-HCH, beta-HCH, gamma-HCH, delta-HCH), three dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) homologs and their metabolites (p,p'-DDD, o,p'-DDD, p,p'-DDE, p,p'-DDT, o,p'-DDT, o,p'-DDE), sodium pentachlorophenate and PAHs varied from 0.536 +/- 0.330 to 6.937 +/- 2.655, 14.421 +/- 5.260 to 82.871 +/- 31.258. 15346 +/- 6.935 to 48.254 +/- 16.836, and 33.0 +/- 11.5 to 369.1 +/- 138.5 mu g/kg, respectively. The concentrations of HCH isomers followed the order: gamma-HCH > beta-NCH > delta-HCH > alpha-HCH. The most dominant gamma-HCH ranged from 0253 +/- 0.155 to 3.465 +/- 1.010 mu g/kg, suggesting a recent input of lindane. p,p'-DDD was the most dominant pollutant of DDTs, with a mean concentration of 31.684 +/- 13.530 mu g/kg. The ratios of (DDE + DDD)/DDT ranged from 75 +/- 24 to 360 +/- 115, indicating no recent input of DDTs. The PAHs were mainly originated from liquid fossil fuel combustion and leakage, except at Pojiang River estuary, where the pyrogenic source (coal, grass and wood combustion) was dominant. Several PAH metabolites were identified and the possible degradation pathways were proposed. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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