Document Type

Peer-Reviewed Article

Publication Date

1992

Journal Title or Book Title

Water Science and Technology: Water Supply

Volume

25

Issue

3

Version

Post-Print

Publisher's Statement

The journal can be found at http://ws.iwaponline.com/

Abstract

The objectives of this study were to examine depuration aspects of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in a hard-shell clam Mercenaria mercenaria, and to characterize PAHs by the depuration kinetics. In this investigation, clams were exposed to artificial sea water containing a mixture of eight PAHs (i.e., naphthalene, fluorene, phenanthrene, flouranthene, pyrene, benz[a]anthracene, chrysene, benzo[a]pyrene) for 48 hours. The clams were then transferred into clean (PAH-free) artificial seawater for release, and sampled at predetermined intervals. The target PAHs were extracted from the clam tissue and quantified by a gas chromatograph equipped with a capillary glass column and FID.

The results revealed single- and multi-component release mechanisms which were descrbied by single- and multi-stage first-order kinetics, respectively. Benz[a]anthracene and benzo[a]pyrene exhibited the single-stage depuration, while naphthalene, fluorene, phenanthrene, fluoranthene, pyrene, and chrysene showed the two-stage depuration.

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