Palladium Emissions in the Environment: Analytical Methods, Environmental Assessment and Health Effects

Automotive Catalysts....Pages 3-23
Release of Particulate and Acid Soluble Palladium from Catalytic Converters into the Environment....Pages 25-38
Use and Demand of Palladium for the Industry....Pages 39-51
Regional Distribution of Pd, Pt and Au-Emissions from the Nickel Industry on the Kola Peninsula, NW-Russia, as Seen in Moss and Humus Samples....Pages 53-70
Analysis of Palladium by High Resolution ICP-MS....Pages 73-82
Determination of Palladium in Environmental Samples by ICP-MS after Preconcentration / Separation....Pages 83-96
Sources of Error and their Elimination for Spectrometric Determination of Palladium in Environmental Samples....Pages 97-109
Collision Cell ICP-MS as Tool for the Determination of Palladium....Pages 111-118
Solid Sampling GFAAS and ICPMS for the Determination of Trace Amounts of Palladium....Pages 119-134
Preconcentration and Separation Methods for the Determination of Trace Palladium in Environmental Samples....Pages 135-144
Analytical Problems and Validation of Methods for Determination of Palladium in Environmental Materials....Pages 145-162
ICP-MS and Te Co-Precipitation after Nickel Sulphide Fire-Assay Collection for Pd Determination in Roadside Soils....Pages 163-172
Determination of Ultra-Trace Levels of Palladium in Environmental Samples by Graphite Furnace Atomic Spectrometry Techniques....Pages 173-189
Determination of palladium in road dust and sewage sludge ashes....Pages 191-201
Speciation of Palladium in Plants: Method Development for Investigating Metabolic Changes....Pages 203-213
Analytical Procedure for the Quantification of in vitro Induced Pt- and Pd-DNA Adducts in Human Lung Cells....Pages 215-227
HPLC, Extraction and Solubilities of Pd (II) - und Rh (III)-Dialkyldithiocarbamates and Other Chelate Chemistry....Pages 229-243
Analytical Methods to Determine Palladium in Environmental Matrices: A Review....Pages 245-291
Regional and Global Transport of Platinum Group Elements from Automobile Catalysts....Pages 295-305
Palladium in Waste Waters and Surface Waters of North Rhine-Westfalia....Pages 307-323
Anthropogenic Emission of Pd and Traffic-Related PGEs — Results Based on Monitoring with Sewage Sludge....Pages 325-341
The Importance of Assessing Variability in the Distribution of Anthropogenic Palladium, Platinum and Rhodium in Fluvial Sediments....Pages 343-353
Man-Induced Changes of Palladium in Polar and Alpine Snow and Ice Archives....Pages 355-367
Palladium in a Mountain Ecosystem (Aspe Valley, Pyrenees, France)....Pages 369-380
Short-Term Variation of Palladium in Airborne Particulate Matter....Pages 381-396
Palladium in Airborne Particulate Matter: Total Concentrations and Particle Size Distribution....Pages 397-405
Source Characterization of Platinum Group Elements Using the Isotopic Composition of Osmium....Pages 407-418
Temporal and Spatial Variation of Palladium in the Roadside Environment....Pages 419-432
Spatial and Temporal Variation of Anthropogenic Palladium in the Environment....Pages 433-454
Palladium in Environmental Matrices: A Review....Pages 455-485
Biological Effects of Palladium....Pages 489-499
Uptake of Palladium by the Fauna....Pages 501-511
Biomonitoring of Palladium in the Environment Using Different Accumulation Indicators....Pages 513-523
Biomonitoring of Pt and Pd with Mosses....Pages 525-536
Distribution of Palladium, Platinum and Rhodium in Birds of Prey....Pages 537-547
Contact Dermatitis to Palladium....Pages 551-555
Palladium Occupational Exposure....Pages 557-563
Palladium from Catalytic Converters: Exposure Levels and Human Risk....Pages 565-574
Palladium Toxicity in Animals and in in vitro Test Systems — An Overview....Pages 575-596