Organic Micropollutants in the Aquatic Environment: Proceedings of the Sixth European Symposium, Held in Lisbon, Portugal, May 22–24, 1990

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Field Data Versus Modelling - Why Environmental Sciences Need Both....Pages 2-8
Field Testing of Transport Models for Organic Chemicals in Surface and Subsurface Water....Pages 9-19
The Transport and Fate of Organic Pollutants in Rivers....Pages 20-37
Environmental Applications of Chemometrics - Envirometrics....Pages 38-47
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
Sorption Kinetics of Micropollutants from Suspended Particles: Experimental Observations and Modeling....Pages 50-60
Bioaccumulation Kinetics: Experimental Data and Modelling....Pages 61-70
Bioaccumulation of Nonylphenol in Caged Mussels in an Industrial Coastal Area on the Swedish West Coast....Pages 71-79
Transport and Distribution of DDT and PCB in the Upper Sado Estuary, and Accumulation in Oysters: Importance of Runoff....Pages 80-88
Herbicide losses in Runoff from the Agricultural Area of Thessaloniki in Thermaikos Gulf, N. Greece.....Pages 89-99
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
The Role of Capillary GC - Hyphenated Techniques in Water Analysis....Pages 102-111
Supercritical Fluid Extraction of Chlorinated Compounds and other Pollutants....Pages 112-114
Application of AMD to the Determination of Crop-Protection Agents in Drinking Water - Fundamentals and Method....Pages 115-129
Front Matter....Pages 131-131
Liquid Chromatographic Strategies for the Determination of Pesticides in the Aquatic Environment....Pages 132-141
Multiresidue Analysis of Pesticides in Drinking Water and Related Samples....Pages 142-162
Chemical Analysis as a Cyclic Procedure (A Chain is Only as Strong as its Weakest Link)....Pages 163-171
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
Microbial Degradation of Mixtures of Aromatic Compounds at Low Concentrations under Aerobic Conditions....Pages 174-183
Microbial Aspects of the Behaviour of Chlorinated Compounds During Soil Passage....Pages 184-192
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
In Situ Biorestobation of a Subsoil, Contaminated with Gasoline....Pages 194-210
Bioremediation of Chlorophenol-Contaminated Ground Water....Pages 211-217
Synergic behaviour of microorganisms able to degrade halogenated organic substances....Pages 218-225
Front Matter....Pages 227-227
Photochemical Processes in Water and their Stimulation for the Degradation of Organic Micropollutants....Pages 228-233
Removal of Nitrogenous Pesticides by Direct and Radical Type Ozonation....Pages 234-250
The Effect of Ozonation and Biological Filtration on the Removal of Cyanobacterial Toxins....Pages 251-257
Front Matter....Pages 259-259
Global Aspects of the Environmental Fate of Organic Micropollutants....Pages 260-273
Environmental Problems in a Long Term Perspective....Pages 274-284
EC Policy in the Field of Water....Pages 285-292
Front Matter....Pages 293-293
Carboxylic Biointermediates of LAS and NPEO: Synthesis, Characterization and RP-HPLC Determination....Pages 294-305
Dual Column Chromatography in a Standard Gas Chromatograph....Pages 306-310
Identification of Volatile Organic Compounds in Urban and Industrial Effluents Discharged at Sado Estuary....Pages 311-314
The Evaluation of Three Solvent Extraction Techniques for the Isolation of N-Herbicides from Drinking - and Surface Water....Pages 315-319
Two Interlaboratory Studies on Volatile Organic Hydrocarbons....Pages 320-320
Determination of Nitroaromatics in Water Using Substance Specific Detection Modes....Pages 321-326
HPLC with Diode-Array-Detection, a New Multi-Method in the Determination of Pestcides in Drinking Water....Pages 327-330
GC Determination of Chlorophenoxy Acids in Minor Polluted Waters....Pages 331-336
Multi-Component Analysis of Pesticides in Water Samples by Hplc. Rapid Extraction and Neutral/Acid Fractionation by a Carbopack Cartridge....Pages 337-343
FAB Mass Spectrometric Applications to the Study of Non Volatile Organic Compounds in Water....Pages 344-349
Determination of Organotin Miticides in Water and Vegetables....Pages 350-353
Field Measurement of Volatile Organic Chemicals by Membrane Inlet Mass Spectrometry....Pages 354-359
Extraction and Analysis of Organic Micropollutants in River Water....Pages 360-365
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons....Pages 366-370
Front Matter....Pages 293-293
Identification and Behaviour of Iodinated Haloform Medicinal Odor....Pages 371-383
Contribution of the Differential Pulse Polarography (DPP) to the Analysis of Nitrated and Nitrosated Micropollutants in Waters....Pages 384-392
Determination of Chloroacetic Acids in Surface Water....Pages 393-397
Evaluation of a simple method for the determination of monoaromatic hydrocarbons in surface water....Pages 398-404
An Inexpensive Method for The Determination of Organic Carbon in Sludges and Sediments....Pages 405-409
Front Matter....Pages 411-411
MASAS-Modelling of Anthropogenic Substances in Aquatic Systems on Personal Computers....Pages 412-416
Organochlorine Compounds in Water, Sediments and Bivalves from Ria Formosa (Portugal)....Pages 417-422
Infiltration of Organic Pollutants into Groundwater: Field Studies in the Alluvial Aquifer of the Sava River....Pages 423-427
Pentachlorophenol - A Wood Preservative - Its Distribution in an Invertebrate Food Chain....Pages 428-431
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in the River Meuse Basin....Pages 432-436
Estimating Binding Coefficients of Chlorinated Aromatics and Aquatic Humic Substances from Molecular Properties....Pages 437-443
Distribution of Petroleum Hydrocarbons in a S.E. Mediterranean Coastal Area.....Pages 444-457
Origin of Adsorbable Organic Halogens (AOX) in Aquatic Environments....Pages 458-464
Sorption of Trichloroethylene by Soil and Aquifer Solids....Pages 465-469
Behaviour of Detergent Derived Organic Chemicals in the Glatt River. 1. Alkylphenol Polyethoxylates and Their Metabolites....Pages 470-475
Front Matter....Pages 477-477
Reactions of the Potent Bacterial Mutagen “MX” with Nucleophiles....Pages 478-482
Biotechnology of Organic Chemicals Pollutants: Study of a Real Case....Pages 483-489
Fate of Organic Pollutants in the System of Reservoirs of the Ter River Supplying Water to Barcelona (Spain). A Study by GC/MS and FAB Mass Spectrometry.....Pages 490-496
Persistence of Dichlobenil and Dichlorvos in Water....Pages 497-501
Front Matter....Pages 503-503
Investigation and Removal of an Organic Pollutant in a Ground Water Source....Pages 504-505
Front Matter....Pages 503-503
Dechlorination with Sodium Sulfite: Effect on the TOX Concentration and the Mutagenicity of Chlorinated Solutions of Aquatic Humic Substances....Pages 506-510
Research and Behaviour of Organic Micropollutants in Natural Ponds of Waste Water from Olive Oil Production....Pages 511-517
Formation of the Potent Mutagen MX and Structurally Related Compounds by Chlorination of Phenolic Substances....Pages 518-522
Formation of Chlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and Dibenzo Furans during Chlorination of Aquatic Humic Substances....Pages 523-527
Concluding Remarks by Giovanni Angeletti and Alf Bjørseth....Pages 528-529
Back Matter....Pages 530-539