Health Risk of Platinum Group Elements from Automobile Catalysts

Platinum group elements in the environment and their health risk.

Accumulation of platinum group elements (PGEs) in the environment has been increased over the time. Catalytic converters of modern vehicles are considered to be the main sources of PGE pollution, since the correlation is between the Pt:Rh ratios in various environmental compartments and in converter units. The present literature survey shows that the concentration of these metals has increased ...

Accumulation of Platinum Group Elements

Accumulation of Platinum Group Elements by the Marine Microalga, Chlorella stigmatophora Leyla Shams Very little information exists on the marine biogeochemistry of Rh, Pd and Pt, or the platinum group elements (PGE), an emerging group of contaminants whose priiicipal emissions are associated with the abrasion of the catalytic converter in motor vehicles and chemotherapy drugs discharged in hos...

The Environmental Relevance of the Platinum Group Elements

Fractionation of Platinum Group Elements in Carboneceous Chondrites

Introduction: Although chondrites are among the most primitive materials accessible to us, their chemical compositions are highly variable among groups of chondrites, reflecting several fractionation processes including condensation and accretion processes in the early solar system. Considering that CI chondrites represent a solar system standard in the elemental abundance [1] and that calcium ...

Platinum Group Elements: A Challenge for Environmental Analytics

An increased worldwide usage of platinum group elements (PGE) has been observed during recent decades. high amounts of PGE are applied in such areas as chemical industry and jewellery production, but the increased demand for these metals primarily depends on the introduction of automobile catalytic converter systems. Catalytic converters have also been considered to be a major source of PGE pol...