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Selective supercritical fluid extraction to estimate the fraction of PCB that is bioavailable to a benthic organism in a naturally contaminated sediment

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Summary, in English

Selective supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) at 40 °C, 120 bar and 60 min was utilised as a means to estimate the bioavailable fraction of PCBs to chironomid larvae in a naturally contaminated limnic sediment. This extraction methodology removed about 50% of the PCBs from the sediment. According to the equilibrium partitioning theory, organisms in that sediment should decrease their uptake from the sediment to the same extent, biota-to-sediment accumulation factors (BSAFs) thus remaining constant. Surprisingly, the BSAFs for 11 PCB congeners decreased some 40% for the selectively extracted sediment as compared to BSAFs for organisms dwelling in untreated sediment. The results were statistically significant at the 0.001 level using a paired t-test. This can only be interpreted so that selective SFE removed easily available PCBs preferentially, leaving more tightly bound PCBs behind. Hence, by fine-tuning extraction conditions, this methodology might be used to estimate bioavailable fractions by chemical means.

Publiceringsår

2003

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

1049-1052

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Chemosphere

Volym

53

Issue

8

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Elsevier

Ämne

  • Environmental Sciences

Nyckelord

  • Bioavailability
  • PCB
  • SFE
  • Sediment

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1879-1298