Anthropogenic Platinum-Group Element Emissions: Their Impact on Man and Environment

Front Matter....Pages I-XX
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The automobile catalyst as an important source of PGE in the environment....Pages 3-14
Sources and sinks of anthropogenic platinum fluxes....Pages 15-24
Traffic-borne platinum pollution in municipal sewage treatment plants....Pages 25-32
Engine test bench experiments to determine platinum emissions from three-way catalytic converters....Pages 33-44
Front Matter....Pages 45-45
Environmental PGE contamination in Southwest Germany....Pages 47-55
Changes in platinum concentrations in soils and dusts from UK cities....Pages 57-64
Biomonitoring of platinum immissions from motor vehicles....Pages 65-71
Anthropogenic emission of platinum-group elements (Pt, Pd and Rh) into the environment: concentration, distribution and geochemical behaviour in soils....Pages 73-83
Routes for bioaccunmulation and transormation of platinum in the urban environment....Pages 85-93
Platinum bioaccumulation in plants and overview of the situation for palladium and rhodium....Pages 95-104
Determinants of the phytotoxicity of platinum....Pages 105-114
A contribution to the enology and ecology of noble metals....Pages 115-120
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Preconcentration/separation methods for the determination of trace platinum in environmental samples by ICP-MS....Pages 123-131
PGE emissions of automobile catalysts — identifying their track in the environment....Pages 133-144
Voltammetric determination of ultratrace platinum and rhodium in biological and environmental samples....Pages 145-152
PACEPAC: A road dust as a certified reference material for the quality assurance in the analysis of Pt, Pd and Rh in environmental samples....Pages 153-160
Platinum speciation using on-line hyphenation of capillary electrophoresis to ICP-MS....Pages 161-172
Determination of palladium in environmental samples....Pages 173-182
Speciation of platinum in plant material. A combination of chromatography, elemental mass spectrometry and electrochemistry....Pages 183-190
Plasma source mass spectrometric techniques and highly efficient sample introduction systems as tools for the ultratrace determination of PGE....Pages 191-199
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Reliability of and measurement uncertainty for the determination of Au, Pd, Pt and Rh by ICP-MS in environmentally relevant samples....Pages 201-214
Front Matter....Pages 215-215
Bioavailability of finely dispersed platinum as emitted from automotive catalytic converter: A model study....Pages 217-226
Internal platinum and palladium exposure of the general population with emphasis on the exposure from automobile exhaust and dental restorative alloys....Pages 227-236
Urinary biomonitoring of platinum in occupational medicine....Pages 237-242
Front Matter....Pages 243-243
Toxicology of platinum, palladium, rhodium, and their compounds....Pages 245-255
Occupational platinum salt allergy. Diagnosis, prognosis, prevention and therapy....Pages 257-265
Evaluation of the health risk of platinum emissions from automotive emission control catalysts....Pages 267-281
Front Matter....Pages 283-283
Pollution reduction in motor car exhaust gases by regulation of the fuel mixture with the lambda-sensor....Pages 285-291
Screening life cycle inventory of PGEs and its influence on the overall emission balance of cars fitted with catalytic converters....Pages 293-300
Back Matter....Pages 301-308