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

More than 10 years after the "First European Symposium on Organic Micropollutants in the Aquatic Environment", the "Sixth Symposium" was held in Lisbon (Portugal) from 22 to 24 May 1990. The Symposium was organised within the framework of the Concerted Action COST 641 \* which is included in the Fourth R&D Programme on the Environment of the Commission of the European Communities expiring at the end of 1990. After restructuring the Concerted Action in 1984, particular attention has been devoted to fate and transformation of organic micropollutants in the aquatic environment. Therefore, a major aim of the Symposium was to review current studies and progress in these areas, besides more general aspects related to analytical methodologies and behaviour of pollutants during water treatment processes. This volume contains the plenary papers presented in the following sessions at the Symposium: - Multidisciplinary studies - Partitioning of organic micropollutants in the aquatic environment - Novel analytical techniques in environmental chemistry - Monitoring micropollutant - Degradation of organic micropollutants during field conditions - Reclamation of polluted ground water - Chemical and photochemical oxidation - Future of environmental chemistry. In addition, extended versions of posters are included, covering the four topics which are dealt within the four Working Parties forming the structure of the Concerted Action: 1. Analytical methodologies 2. Transport and distribution 3. Transformation reactions 4. Water treatment. We believe that the Proceedings give a good overview of current activities in these fields of research in Europe. 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 More than 10 years after the "First European Symposium on Organic Micropollutants in the Aquatic Environment", the "Sixth Symposium" was held in Lisbon (Portugal) from 22 to 24 May 1990. The Symposium was organised within the framework of the Concerted Action COST 641 * which is included in the Fourth R & D Programme on the Environment of the Commission of the European Communities expiring at the end of 1990. After restructuring the Concerted Action in 1984, particular attention has been devoted to fate and transformation of organic micropollutants in the aquatic environment. Therefore, a major aim of the Symposium was to review current studies and progress in these areas, besides more general aspects related to analytical methodologies and behaviour of pollutants during water treatment processes. This volume contains the plenary papers presented in the following sessions at the Symposium: - Multidisciplinary studies - Partitioning of organic micropollutants in the aquatic environment - Novel analytical techniques in environmental chemistry - Monitoring micropollutant - Degradation of organic micropollutants during field conditions - Reclamation of polluted ground water - Chemical and photochemical oxidation - Future of environmental chemistry. In addition, extended versions of posters are included, covering the four topics which are dealt within the four Working Parties forming the structure of the Concerted Action: 1. Analytical methodologies 2. Transport and distribution 3. Transformation reactions 4. Water treatment. We believe that the Proceedings give a good overview of current activities in these fields of research in Europe