Transport of organochlorine residues after incineration to air, water, microlayer, and organisms

• In a laboratory system designed to study the distribution of airborne emissions originating from sources such as incineration, the fates of PICs (products of incomplete combustion) of trichloroethylene and PCBs were followed. The airborne substances introduced over a body of water were deposited onto the surface of the water and became enriched in the surface microlayer. They were taken up by organisms in the subsurface water, resulting in an accumulation of PICs and PCBs by fish in amounts up to 103–106 times those measured in the water. A relationship existed between the concentrations of the organochlorine residues in the air and those in the microlayer and water. 

Subject headings

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Biologi -- Ekologi (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Biological Sciences -- Ecology (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecology

Terrestrisk, limnisk och marin ekologi

Aquatic Ecology

Akvatisk ekologi

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

art (subject category)