Polychlorinated biphenyls in the surrounding of an e-waste recycling facility in North-Rhine Westphalia: Levels in plants and dusts, spatial distribution, homologue pattern and source identification using the combination of plants and wind direction data
| Autor: | Dieter Gladtke, Katja Hombrecher, Marcel Klees |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Environmental Engineering
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Brassica Wind 010501 environmental sciences Spatial distribution 01 natural sciences Electronic Waste Curly kale Germany Environmental Chemistry Waste recycling Recycling Picea Waste Management and Disposal Industrial premises 0105 earth and related environmental sciences organic chemicals fungi Environmental engineering food and beverages Dust Wind direction Contamination Pollution Polychlorinated Biphenyls Environmental chemistry Environmental science Concentration gradient Bioindicator |
| Zdroj: | The Science of the total environment. |
| ISSN: | 1879-1026 |
| Popis: | During this study the occurrence of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the surrounding of an e-waste recycling facility in North-Rhine Westphalia was analysed. PCB levels were analysed in curly kale, spruce needles, street dusts and dusts. Conspicuously high PCB concentrations in curly kale and spruce needles were found directly northwards of the industrial premises. Furthermore a concentration gradient originating from the industrial premises to the residential areas in direction southwest to northeast was evident. Homologue patterns of highly PCB contaminated dusts and street dusts were comparable to the homologue patterns of PCB in curly kale and spruce needles. This corroborates the suspicion that the activities at the e-waste recycling facility were responsible for the elevated PCB levels in curly kale and spruce needles. The utilization of multiple linear regression of wind direction data and analysed PCB concentrations in spruce needles proved that the e-waste recycling facility caused the PCB emissions to the surrounding. Additionally, this evaluation enabled the calculation of source specific accumulation constants for certain parts of the facility. Consequently the different facility parts contribute with different impacts to the PCB levels in bioindicators. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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