Herbicides are the main type of pesticides causing water contamination. The chloroacetanilide herbicide Smetolachlor is frequently detected in ground and surface waters, and represents a potential source of water pollution. The addition of organic residues to soils to reduce losses of organic pollutants constitutes sometimes an efficient method to control contamination. One of the recent techno...

The production rates of DOC and POC by phytoplankton during the FRUELA 95 cruise were estimated by means of time-course experiments of C-bicarbonate incorporation. A three-compartment carbon exchange model was used to avoid the artifacts that may appear in end-point experiments due to heterotrophic removal of recently released DOC. The study area was classified into three regions with different...

Water, suspended particulate matter (SPM), and sediment samples were collected from ten rivers in Tianjin and analyzed for 16 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), dissolved organic carbon (DOC), particulate organic carbon (POC) in SPM and total organic carbon (TOC) in sediment. The behavior and fate of PAHs influenced by these parameters were examined. Generally, organic carbon was the prim...

Drainage following conversion of peatlands to oil palm plantations is always associated with carbon (C) loss, one which dissolved organic (DOC). Analytical procedure commonly used determine DOC the high-temperature combustion (HTC) method, requires an expensive instrument. An alternative low-cost method has been developed. The objectives this research were and validate most suitable UV-Vis spec...

The carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) mineralisation rates of five digestates were studied compared with pig slurry, compost, a solid fraction digestate in aerobic incubation experiments. objective was to identify the most relevant drivers C N based on physicochemical properties products. Net organic (Nmin,net) average 30%, although range relatively wide, from manure (39%) reaching double value sewag...

To examine spatial distribution and bioconcentration of PAHs, water and fish samples were collected from Pearl River Delta in summer and spring, respectively. Particulate organic carbon, dissolved organic carbon, biodegradable DOC (BDOC), and chlorophyll a were measured. PAHs were dominated by 2- and 3-ring compounds in the water and SPM samples. Aqueous and solid-phase PAHs, respectively, show...

We tested the performance of 2 types of glass fiber filters (GF/F: 0.7 pm; GF/C: 1.2 pm) and 2 membrane filters (PC0.2: polycarbonate 0.2 p; CE0.22: mixed cellulose esters 0.22 pm) in estimating chlorophyll a and primary production with the 14C technique. Four experiments were carried out with water samples from the NW Mediterranean, the NE Atlantic and the Antarctic Ocean. The first experiment...

The focus of this work was the evaluation of analytical methods to determine and characterize fractions of subsurface organic matter. Major fractions of total organic carbon (TOC) include: particulate organic carbon (POC) in aquifer material, dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and both volatile (VOC) and non-volatile (NVOC) organic carbon sub-fractions. POC makes up the bulk of TOC in contaminated ...