Pour une meilleure compréhension en gestion de la qualité de l’environnement le dosage des contaminants dans les différents compartiments naturels reste un premier pas vers l’élucidation de la dynamique des polluants et de leurs impacts sur les écosystèmes. Cependant les stratégies d’échantillonnage usuellement utilisées n’ont pas changé depuis l’avènement de la chimie analytique. Ces techniques consistent en général à prélever une certaine quantité de l’échantillon (eau, air, solide) afin d’en extraire les substances d’intérêt pour les doser. La question de la représentativité de telles pratiques se pose alors ; en effet pour un site donné la contamination peut être très variable au cours du temps et sur de faibles distances. La compréhension fine de la contamination d’un milieu en utilisant de telles techniques impose alors la multiplication des prélèvements dans le temps et l’espace.Depuis les années 80 mais surtout depuis le début des années 2000, des outils d’échantillonnage passif ont été mis au point dans de nombreux domaines permettant d’avoir un suivi de la contamination intégré dans le temps à moindre coût. Ces nouvelles approches consistent à prélever l’échantillon en continu et in-situ sans apport d’énergie, fournissant ainsi une valeur moyenne de la contamination.Afin de pouvoir utiliser ces dispositifs, un certain nombre de développements en laboratoire doivent être au préalable menés afin de déterminer les constantes cinétiques nécessaires pour déduire la contamination du milieu échantillonné à partir des résidus séquestrés par les échantillonneurs. Ainsi, dans le cadre de ces travaux, une sélection d’échantillonneurs existants ont été testés et adaptés en laboratoire puis évalués en conditions réelles sur divers sites environnementaux.Les développements en laboratoire ont eu pour objet de mettre au point différentes configurations d’outils dans le but d’être applicables au plus grand nombre de molécules et ce de la manière la plus quantitative possible. A titre d’exemple, des dispositifs adaptés ont été mis au point pour l’échantillonnage de molécules très polaires qui auparavant n’étaient pas efficacement échantillonnées par les dispositifs existants. Sur site, les outils d’échantillonnage ont principalement été mis en œuvre dans le cadre de programmes de recherche plus vastes et ont à ce titre pu être testés sur de grands terrains d’étude (Bassin d’Arcachon et Estuaire de la Gironde) et être comparés aux techniques d’échantillonnage ponctuels qui font actuellement référence. Les résultats fournis par les outils sont proches de ceux obtenus par échantillonnage ponctuel. Cependant l’aspect quantitatif apparaît probablement encore améliorable soit par l’usage de nouveaux composés référence de performance soit par mise au point de dispositifs plus robustes et faiblement impactés dans leurs performances par les conditions environnementales. / For a better understanding and management of the environmental quality, contaminant analysis in the various compartments is a natural first step in the understanding of the dynamics of pollutants and of their impacts on ecosystems. However sampling strategies commonly used have not changed since the advent of analytical chemistry. These techniques in general consist of taking a certain amount of sample (water, air, solid) to extract the substances of interest to assay. The issue of representativeness of such sampling practices arises since for a given site the contamination can vary over time and over short distances. Detailed understanding of the contamination of an ecosystem using such sampling techniques requires the multiplication of samples over time and space.Since the 80’s and more especially the beginning of 2000, passive sampling tools have been developed in many areas. They provide an integrated monitoring of contamination over time at low cost. These new approaches are based on the fact that the sample are taken continuously in-situ and without energy supply, thus providing an average value of the contamination.To use these devices, a number of laboratory developments must first be conducted to determine the kinetic constants to deduce the necessary characteristics of the environmental contamination. Thus, as part of this work, a selection of existing samplers has been tested and adapted in laboratory experiments and evaluated in real conditions at various environmental sites.Laboratory developments have been conducted to develop different configuration tools in order to be used for a wide range of pollutants with the best quantitative capacity. For example, suitable devices have been developed for sampling highly polar molecules which previously were not strongly sampled by existing devices.On-site, sampling tools were mainly implemented in the framework of broader research programs and consequently have been tested during large field studies (Bassin d'Arcachon, Gironde Estuary) to compare their performance to grab sampling techniques. The results provided by the tools are similar to those obtained by grab sampling. However, the quantitative aspect appears still improvable either by the use of new performance reference compounds or by using devices more robust and slightly affected in their performance by environmental conditions.

A região metropolitana de São Paulo apresenta um intenso e desordenado processo de urbanização e industrialização. Devido a estes processos, a região sofre grandes problemas de poluição atmosférica, agravados em certos meses devido às dificuldades de dispersão dos poluentes. Estes poluentes causam efeitos indesejáveis ao meio ambiente e à saúde humana. A caracterização química e a avaliação da atividade mutagênica desses compostos presentes no material particulado atmosférico (MPA) é um grande desafio analítico e, é de extrema importância para o conhecimento das possíveis correlações entre os poluentes, os efeitos deletérios à saude e as fontes de emissão. Os objetivos deste trabalho foram caracterizar quimicamente os extratos orgânicos polares e semi-polares do material particulado atmosférico da cidade de São Paulo e avaliar sua atividade mutagênica. O MPA é uma mistura complexa de compostos orgânicos e inorgânicos presentes em diferentes faixas de concentrações. Devido a esta complexidade, o fracionamento químico do extrato orgânico deste material é necessário para isolar classes de compostos ou compostos individuais, permitindo a identificação e quantificação dos mesmos. Os resultados obtidos pelas diversas técnicas analíticas empregadas mostraram que os extratos em diclorometano e acetona contém inúmeros compostos orgânicos pertencentes a diferentes classes, tais como hidrocarbonetos policíclicos aromáticos, quinolinas, cetonas, piridinas, furanos, aldeídos, amidas e aminas, sendo que alguns destes compostos são considerados agentes genotóxicos. O extrato em DCM contem a maior massa e sua composição é quase exclusivamente orgânica. Já o extrato em ACE contem além dos orgânicos, espécies inorgânicas. Testes de mutagenicidade indicaram que o MPA coletado na cidade de São Paulo apresenta uma atividade mutagênica relativamente alta quando comparada a outros centros urbanos. / São Paulo metropolitan area presents an intense and chaotic process of urbanization and industrialization. Due to this processes, this region has big atmospheric pollution problem. In certain months of the year, this problem gets worse due to the unfavorable dispersion conditions. The pollutants cause undesirable effects to the environment and to the human health. The chemical characterization and the mutagenic activity evaluation of the compounds present on the atmospheric particulate matter APM) represents an analytical challenge and it is very important for understanding of the correlation among pollutants, health hazards and emission sources. The goal of this work was chemically characterize the polar and moderately polar organic extracts from the APM collected in São Paulo city and to evaluate their mutagenic activity. The APM is a complex mixture of organic and inorganic compounds present in large range of concentration. Due to this complexity, the chemical fractionation of these organic extracts is necessary to isolate classes or individual compounds, to allow their identification and quantification. The results obtained using different analytical techniques demonstrated that the dichlorometane and acetone extracts has several organic compounds belonging to different classes, such as, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, quinolines, ketones, pyridines, furanes, aldehydes, amides and amines. Some of these compoundsa are considered carcinogens and/or mutagens. The dichloromethane extract presented the highest mass yield and its composition is almost exclusively organic. The acetone extract has organic and inorganic species. Mutagenicity tests revealed that the APM from São Paulo city presented a have relatively high mutagenic activity when compared to other urban regions.

Polar organic compounds (POCs) are chemicals with polar functional groups in their structure. The functional groups make the compounds hydrophilic and less prone to partition with biota. However, the knowledge of their fate is limited due to difficulties associated with their measurements. Although, the persistence of POCs in the environment is generally low, they are considered to be semi-persistent compounds due to their continuous introduction to the environment via wastewater. Studies have shown that complex mixtures of POCs of different classes may have synergistic toxic effects on biota at environmental concentration levels. Therefore, it is important to develop analytical methods in order to establish the occurrence and fate of POCs in aquatic environments. In Study I, a positive correlation between the sorption of a novel poly(ethylene-co-vinyl acetate-co-carbon monoxide) (PEVAC) material and the theoretical logarithmic dissociation partition coefficient (Log D) for seven POCs was observed. The PEVAC material showed an enhanced sorption of the POCs compared to the silicone material. Study II, demonstrated that the PEVAC sampler assess the freely dissolved concentration of POCs in aquatic environments. The results showed that the PEVAC polymer is an attractive alternative to silicone for mimicing the biological uptake of POCs in aquatic environments. Additionally, Study II showed that total extraction is appropriate for determination of the freely dissolved concentration of uncharged POCs with Log KOW < 2.67 in natural water. In study III, a novel bag-solid phase extraction (bag-SPE) technique was compared to a conventional SPE-technique. Despite that the extraction efficiencies for POCs in wastewater were lower using the bag-SPE method, the two methods showed similar detection limits due to the lower ion-suppression experienced with the bag-SPE. In study IV the bag-SPE method was further developed with the aim of lowering the detection limits for POCs. Detection limits (LOD) below 13 ng/L showed that the bag-SPE method was suitable for determination of POCs in surface sea water. / This research was financially supported by European Union (European Commission, FP6 Contract No. 003956) “Novel Methods for Integrated Risk Assessment of Cumulative Stressors in the Environment” (NoMiracle) and by the Swedish research council Formas.

Le POCIS (Polar Organic Chemical Integrative Sampler) est un outil d'échantillonnage intégratif alternatif aux techniques d'échantillonnages classiques (ponctuelle ou automatisée) dédié à la mesure de micropolluants organiques relativement hydrophiles dans les eaux. Cet outil permet d'intégrer les concentrations dans le temps (CTWA, Time-Weighted Average Concentration) et, dans certains cas, d'abaisser les limites de quantification. Une revue bibliographique détaillée a montré la forte variabilité des données de performances du POCIS mesurées en laboratoire (notamment les taux d'échantillonnage ou Rs). Cette variabilité résulte en majeure partie de systèmes expérimentaux d'étalonnage différents selon les études et pas toujours renseignés. Dans la littérature, les CTWA obtenues in situ sont comparées aux concentrations obtenues après échantillonnage classique, tel que mis en œuvre actuellement dans les programmes de surveillance européens ; ces concentrations sont dans la plupart des cas du même ordre de grandeur, même si elles ne représentent pas tout à fait la même information. Avec comme objectif d'obtenir des CTWA les plus justes et robustes possibles, nous avons étudié le comportement du POCIS « pharmaceutique » en laboratoire vis-à-vis de 56 micropolluants (hormones, pharmaceutiques, alkylphénols, pesticides, filtre UV), dans un système expérimental d'étalonnage conçu spécifiquement pour contrôler l'ensemble des conditions expérimentales ayant une influence sur les Rs. Nous avons ainsi déterminé 43 Rs robustes et démontré que le POCIS est bien adapté à l'échantillonnage de la plupart des molécules étudiées. De plus, l'allure des cinétiques d'accumulation est expliquée à l'aide des propriétés physico-chimiques des molécules (log D , surface polaire). Cinq homologues deutérés ont été identifiés en tant que PRC (Performance Reference Compounds), c'est-à-dire qu'ils peuvent être utilisés pour corriger les différences de conditions entre le laboratoire et le terrain. Nous avons également comparé le POCIS au Chemcatcher « polaire » en laboratoire et montré qu'en terme de domaine d'application et de performances, le POCIS est mieux adapté pour les micropolluants étudiés. Enfin, nous avons testé la justesse et la robustesse du POCIS lors de deux essais inter-laboratoires (EIL). Le premier EIL, portant sur l'étalonnage de l'outil en laboratoire, a démontré la robustesse de ses performances pour 3 pesticides. Le deuxième EIL in situ a démontré la pertinence du POCIS pour échantillonner des hormones, des pharmaceutiques et des pesticides dans un effluent de station d'épuration. Cette thèse permet d'avancer dans le domaine des connaissances sur l'outil POCIS et de favoriser son application dans le cadre de la directive sur l'eau / The POCIS (Polar Organic Chemical Integrative Sampler) is an alternative integrative sampling tool to conventional sampling methods (grab or automated) for measuring hydrophilic organic micropollutants in water. This tool permits to supply time-weighted average concentrations (TWAC) and, sometimes, to decrease limits of quantification. A detailed bibliographic review showed the important variability of POCIS performance data measured in laboratory (notably the sampling rates or Rs). This variability is in majority due to different experimental calibration systems, not always well detailed, among studies. In the literature, in situ TWAC are compared to concentrations from conventional sampling, actually used in European monitoring programs ; these concentrations are generally of the same order of magnitude, even if they do not represent the same information. In order to obtain accurate and robust TWAC, we studied in laboratory the “pharmaceutical” POCIS behavior for 56 micropollutants (hormones, pharmaceuticals, alkylphenols, pesticides, UV filter), in a calibration system specifically made for controlling the whole experimental conditions having an influence on Rs. We determined 43 robust RS and demonstrated that POCIS is well adapted for sampling most of studied molecules. Moreover, the pattern of kinetic accumulations is explained using molecule physical-chemical properties (log D, polar surface). Five deuterated homologues were identified as PRCs, meaning that they can be used for correcting differences in conditions between the laboratory and the field. We also compared the POCIS with the “polar” Chemcatcher and we showed that in term of application field and performances, the POCIS is better adapted for studied micropollutants. At last, we tested the accuracy and the robustness of the POCIS during two inter-laboratory studies (ILSs). The first ILS, dealing with the laboratory calibration of the tool, demonstrated performance robustness for 3 pesticides. The second in situ ILS demonstrated the relevance of the POCIS for sampling hormones, pharmaceuticals and pesticides from a waste water treatment plant effluent. This thesis permits to improve knowledge on the POCIS and to promote its application for the water framework directive

A região metropolitana de São Paulo apresenta um intenso e desordenado processo de urbanização e industrialização. Devido a estes processos, a região sofre grandes problemas de poluição atmosférica, agravados em certos meses devido às dificuldades de dispersão dos poluentes. Estes poluentes causam efeitos indesejáveis ao meio ambiente e à saúde humana. A caracterização química e a avaliação da atividade mutagênica desses compostos presentes no material particulado atmosférico (MPA) é um grande desafio analítico e, é de extrema importância para o conhecimento das possíveis correlações entre os poluentes, os efeitos deletérios à saude e as fontes de emissão. Os objetivos deste trabalho foram caracterizar quimicamente os extratos orgânicos polares e semi-polares do material particulado atmosférico da cidade de São Paulo e avaliar sua atividade mutagênica. O MPA é uma mistura complexa de compostos orgânicos e inorgânicos presentes em diferentes faixas de concentrações. Devido a esta complexidade, o fracionamento químico do extrato orgânico deste material é necessário para isolar classes de compostos ou compostos individuais, permitindo a identificação e quantificação dos mesmos. Os resultados obtidos pelas diversas técnicas analíticas empregadas mostraram que os extratos em diclorometano e acetona contém inúmeros compostos orgânicos pertencentes a diferentes classes, tais como hidrocarbonetos policíclicos aromáticos, quinolinas, cetonas, piridinas, furanos, aldeídos, amidas e aminas, sendo que alguns destes compostos são considerados agentes genotóxicos. O extrato em DCM contem a maior massa e sua composição é quase exclusivamente orgânica. Já o extrato em ACE contem além dos orgânicos, espécies inorgânicas. Testes de mutagenicidade indicaram que o MPA coletado na cidade de São Paulo apresenta uma atividade mutagênica relativamente alta quando comparada a outros centros urbanos. / São Paulo metropolitan area presents an intense and chaotic process of urbanization and industrialization. Due to this processes, this region has big atmospheric pollution problem. In certain months of the year, this problem gets worse due to the unfavorable dispersion conditions. The pollutants cause undesirable effects to the environment and to the human health. The chemical characterization and the mutagenic activity evaluation of the compounds present on the atmospheric particulate matter APM) represents an analytical challenge and it is very important for understanding of the correlation among pollutants, health hazards and emission sources. The goal of this work was chemically characterize the polar and moderately polar organic extracts from the APM collected in São Paulo city and to evaluate their mutagenic activity. The APM is a complex mixture of organic and inorganic compounds present in large range of concentration. Due to this complexity, the chemical fractionation of these organic extracts is necessary to isolate classes or individual compounds, to allow their identification and quantification. The results obtained using different analytical techniques demonstrated that the dichlorometane and acetone extracts has several organic compounds belonging to different classes, such as, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, quinolines, ketones, pyridines, furanes, aldehydes, amides and amines. Some of these compoundsa are considered carcinogens and/or mutagens. The dichloromethane extract presented the highest mass yield and its composition is almost exclusively organic. The acetone extract has organic and inorganic species. Mutagenicity tests revealed that the APM from São Paulo city presented a have relatively high mutagenic activity when compared to other urban regions.

La dégradation des ressources en eaux par la présence de matières organiques (MO) et de micropolluants nécessite la mise en œuvre de procédés de production d’eau potable robustes. Dans ce contexte, de nombreuses municipalités françaises comme Saint Cloud et Angers ont décidé d’implanter un procédé d’adsorption sur charbon actif en poudre couplé à l’ultrafiltration (CAP/UF). Le CAP est utilisé en amont des membranes afin d’éliminer les traces de micropolluants tandis que les membranes d’UF assurent une qualité d’eau produite excellente et constante au cours du temps. Cependant, les retours d’expérience montrent une dégradation des performances de séparation liée notamment à un vieillissement des matériaux membranaires ainsi qu’une vulnérabilité du procédé vis-à-vis de certains micropolluants émergents tels que les composés organiques polaires (PMOCs). Les travaux réalisés au cours de cette thèse visent à mieux comprendre les conséquences du vieillissement chimique des membranes utilisées dans ces procédés et d’évaluer l’efficacité d’élimination de micropolluants afin de proposer des voies d’optimisation. Plus particulièrement il a été montré que la cause principale de vieillissement est l’exposition au chlore des membranes durant les phases de lavage modifiant les propriétés des matériaux. En effet, les nombreux outils de caractérisation utilisés ont permis de mettre en évidence une corrélation entre la dégradation de l’agent hydrophile des membranes et l'augmentation de la perméabilité lors de l'exposition au chlore. L’étude des performances membranaires a mis en évidence une altération de la résistance au colmatage vis-à-vis de la MO pour les membranes exposées au chlore. Cependant les résultats obtenus pour évaluer les performances de sélectivité des membranes vis-à-vis de virus n’ont pas souligné d’altérations majeures. Les essais d’adsorption ont démontré l’efficacité limitée du CAP pour la rétention des PMOCs. En effet, parmi les molécules testées, les molécules aromatiques les plus hydrophobes sont efficacement adsorbées par le CAP tandis que les plus polaires sont peu éliminées. Finalement, l’utilisation de la nanofiltration ou l’osmose basse pression, présentant des taux de rétention en moyenne supérieurs à 90%, en font des solutions techniques de choix pour l’élimination des PMOCs. / The degradation of water resources by the presence of organic matter (OM) and micropollutants requires the implementation of robust drinking water production processes. In this context, many French municipalities such as Saint Cloud and Angers have decided to set up a powdered activated carbon adsorption process coupled to ultrafiltration (PAC/UF). PAC is used upstream of membranes to remove traces of micropollutants while UF membranes provide excellent and constant water quality over time. However, the feedback reveals a degradation of the separation performances related in particular to an aging of the membrane materials and a vulnerability of the process towards some emerging micropollutants such as polar organic compounds (PMOCs).The work carried out during this thesis aims to better understand the consequences of the chemical aging of the membranes used in these processes and to evaluate the micropollutants removal efficiency in order to propose optimization ways. More particularly it has been shown that the main cause of aging is the chlorine exposure of the membranes during washing phases modifying the properties of the materials. In fact, the numerous characterization tools used have made it possible to demonstrate a correlation between the degradation of the hydrophilic agent of the membranes and the increase in the permeability during exposure to chlorine. The study of the membrane performances revealed an alteration of the resistance to fouling towards OM for membranes exposed to chlorine. However, the results obtained to evaluate the selectivity performance of the membranes with respect to viruses have not underlined any major alterations. Adsorption tests have demonstrated the limited efficiency of PAC for PMOCs removal. Indeed, among the molecules tested, the most hydrophobic and aromatic molecules are effectively adsorbed on PAC while the more polar ones are slightly adsorbed. Finally, the use of nanofiltration or low-pressure reverse osmosis, with average rejection rates over 90%, makes them the technological solutions of choice for the removal of PMOCs.