Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are in general characterized by high toxicity, persistance, and bio-accumulation in environment. It is important to understand the transport and fate of PAHs in environment. In aquatic environment, PAHs are easily bound with dissolved organic matter (DOM), such as humic substance, and KDOC is usually used in denoting the binding constant.
Previously, many investigations focused on the binding of a single PAH to DOM. However, few researches considered the competition effect on the binding of multiple PAHs to DOM. This study therefore explored the competition between the binary PAHs, pyrene and phenanthrene, in binding with humic substances. No significant competition effect in KDOC could be observed between these two compounds with LHA (Leonardite Humic Acid) because of the relatively large variation in KDOC determination.
Humic substances from different sources might have different properties. Several characteristic indicators of humic substances were used to interprete the variations of KDOC of pyrene and phenanthrene, such as elemental ratio, total acidity, functional group content, etc. Negative correlations of O/C and phenolic group content to the KDOC of pyrene and phenanthrene were observed (p<0.05). In contrast, positive correlation of aromaticity and £`280 of humic substance to the KDOC of pyrene and phenanthrene were observed (p<0.05). Therefore, the contents of phenolic and aromatic groups of humic substance are essential factors in determining their binding constants with PAHs.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0727109-173604 |
| Date | 27 July 2009 |
| Creators | Tseng, Huang-kai |
| Contributors | li-Jyur Tsai, Meng-der Fang, fung-Chi Ko, chon-Lin Lee |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0727109-173604 |
| Rights | withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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