scholarly journals Identifying Speed Hump, a Traffic Calming Device, as a Hotspot for Environmental Contamination in Traffic-Affected Urban Roads

ACS Omega ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (9) ◽  
pp. 5434-5444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ravi Sahu ◽  
Suresh Pandian Elumalai
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Contamination ◽  
Traffic Calming

THE INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION ON HEAVY METALS AND ORGANOCHLORINE COMPOUNDS LEVELS IN MILK

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirela Miclean ◽  
Oana Cadar ◽  
Cecilia Roman ◽  
Claudiu Tanaselia ◽  
Lucrina Stefanescu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metals ◽  
Environmental Contamination ◽  
Organochlorine Compounds

SANITATION POLICY AND PREVENTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION IN SOUTH AFRICA

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 1335-1340
Author(s):  
Roman Tandlich ◽  
Shafick Hoossein ◽  
Kevin Whittington-Jones
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Environmental Contamination

Monitoring of Petroleum-Related Environmental Contamination Using Fluorescence Fingerprinting

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Literathy ◽  
M. Quinn
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Contamination ◽  
Statistical Evaluation ◽  
Oil Pollution ◽  
Emission Spectra ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Petroleum Products ◽  
Danube River ◽  
Aromatic Components ◽  
Analytical Approaches

Petroleum and its refined products are considered the most complex contaminants frequently impacting the environment in significant quantities. They have heterogeneous chemical composition and alterations occur during environmental weathering. No single analytical method exists to characterize the petroleum-related environmental contamination. For monitoring, the analytical approaches include gravimetric, spectrometric and chromatographic methods having significant differences in their selectivity, sensitivity and cost-effectiveness. Recording fluorescence fingerprints of the cyclohexane extracts of the water, suspended solids, sediment or soil samples and applying appropriate statistical evaluation (e.g. by correlating the concatenated emission spectra of the fingerprints of the samples with arbitrary standards (e.g. petroleum products)), provides a powerful, cost-effective analytical tool for characterization of the type of oil pollution and detecting the most harmful aromatic components of the petroleum contaminated matrix. For monitoring purposes, the level of the contamination can be expressed as the equivalent concentration of an appropriate characteristic standard, based on the fluorescence intensities at the relevant characteristic wavelengths. These procedures are demonstrated in the monitoring of petroleum-related pollution in the water and suspended sediment in the Danube river basin

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