کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
4424797 1619203 2012 7 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Atmospheric polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in the United Kingdom
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم محیط زیست شیمی زیست محیطی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Atmospheric polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in the United Kingdom
چکیده انگلیسی

The occurrence of PBDEs has been studied in the atmosphere of four sites in the United Kingdom over a period of ten years. The concentrations have exhibited a sharp decrease after 2001–2003. This is evident in the urban sites of Manchester and London and at the semi-rural site of Hazelrigg. The average ΣPBDE half-lives for these three sites were 3.4, 2.0 and 3.5 years respectively. ΣPBDEs concentrations in the UK (in 2010 ΣPBDEs < 10 pg m−3) are among the lowest reported in literature. Comparison of concentrations to estimated emissions and employment of PBDE profiles suggest that PBDEs in the UK atmosphere originate from primary emissions from products that contain mainly the penta-BDE technical mixture. The detection of BDE-183 in the majority of samples hints that octa-bromodiphenylether has also been used extensively in the UK, however to a smaller extent than the penta- product.

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ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Environmental Pollution - Volume 169, October 2012, Pages 105–111
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