The temporal changes of the concentration level of typical toxic organics in the river sediments around Beijing

doi:10.1007/s11783-018-1054-7

Front. Environ. Sci. Eng.

2018, Vol. 12

Issue (6) : 8 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11783-018-1054-7

RESEARCH ARTICLE

The temporal changes of the concentration level of typical toxic organics in the river sediments around Beijing

Qiang Li^1,², Xiong Xu^1,², Yaoyao Fang³, Ruiyang Xiao⁴, Donghong Wang¹(

), Wenjue Zhong⁵(

)

¹. Key Laboratory of Drinking Water Science and Technology, Research Center for Eco?Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China
². University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
³. Beijing Municipal Research Institute of Environmental Protection, Beijing 100037, China
⁴. Institute of Environmental Engineering, School of Metallurgy and Environment, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
⁵. Tianjin Key Laboratory of Environmental Remediation and Pollution Control, Key Laboratory of Pollution Processes and Environmental Criteria of Ministry of Education, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China

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Abstract

The current situation of typical organics in the sediments around Beijing was unclear.

56 kinds of typical toxic organics were detected in this article.

Historical data was compared with the data in this study.

The change of different organics in the sediments around Beijing was concluded.

In this study, the current situation of five types of toxic organics and endocrine disrupters in the sediments of rivers around Beijing, i.e., polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), phthalic acid esters (PAEs), organic chlorinated pesticides (OCPs), estrogens (Es), and bisphenol A (BPA), which included 56 contaminants, was analyzed and compared with that registered by the historical literatures. The ecological risks were also assessed. The total concentration of PAHs, PAEs, OCPs, Es, and BPA ranged from 232.5 ng·g⁻¹ to 5429.7 ng·g⁻¹, 2047.2 ng·g⁻¹ to 18051.5 ng·g⁻¹, 4.5 ng·g⁻¹ to 11.7 ng·g⁻¹, 18.1 ng·g⁻¹ to 105.2 ng·g⁻¹, and 36.3 ng·g⁻¹ to 69.6 ng·g⁻¹, respectively. Among these five types of organic compounds, the concentration levels of PAHs and OCPs have decreased significantly in the last ten years, while those of PAEs and Es had an upward trend compared with the previous studies. BPA still remained at a moderately high level, as it was ten years ago. The risks of the PAEs in all of the sample sites, and fluoranthene, benzo[a]anthrene, and benzo[a]pyrene in the Wenyu River sediment, were relatively high. These results supplemented the database of toxic organics’ concentration levels in the sediments of Beijing rivers.

Keywords Organic compounds Endocrine disrupters Sediments Concentration Temporal changes

Corresponding Author(s): Donghong Wang,Wenjue Zhong

Issue Date: 19 August 2018

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Qiang Li,Xiong Xu,Yaoyao Fang, et al. The temporal changes of the concentration level of typical toxic organics in the river sediments around Beijing[J]. Front. Environ. Sci. Eng., 2018, 12(6): 8.

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Tab.1 The total concentration of different organics in different years (ng·g⁻¹, dry weight)

Tab.2 Concentrations of detected compounds in different sample sites (ng·g⁻¹, dry weight)

Fig.1 The temporal change of concentration of 5 different organics in this study (ng·g⁻¹)

Tab.3 RQ value of detected compounds

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