PMID- 10739030
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20000511
LR  - 20220330
IS  - 0045-6535 (Print)
IS  - 0045-6535 (Linking)
VI  - 40
IP  - 9-11
DP  - 2000 May-Jun
TI  - Degradation half-life times of PCDDs, PCDFs and PCBs for environmental fate 
      modeling.
PG  - 943-9
AB  - Literature search of the knowledge on the degradation of persistent organic 
      pollutants (POPs) in environmental compartments air, water, soil and sediment was 
      done in purpose to find properties of POPs of interest for modeling. One 
      degradation process, hydrolysis (chemical degradation), was omitted as negligibly 
      slow for POPs studied. The other two, photolysis and biodegradation processes, 
      were considered separately in purpose to develop estimation procedures. The 
      estimates can be given as pseudo first-order rate constants kP for photolysis and 
      kB for biodegradation. For each compartment, an overall degradation rate is 
      k(tot) = kP + kB and lifetime t(1/2) = ln 2/k(tot). The latter values, lifetimes 
      in each compartment, will be used as input parameters to the Baltic Sea model.
FAU - Sinkkonen, S
AU  - Sinkkonen S
AD  - Department of Chemistry, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland.
FAU - Paasivirta, J
AU  - Paasivirta J
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - England
TA  - Chemosphere
JT  - Chemosphere
JID - 0320657
RN  - 0 (Benzofurans)
RN  - 0 (Environmental Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins)
RN  - 0 (Polymers)
RN  - 0 (polychlorodibenzofuran)
RN  - DFC2HB4I0K (Polychlorinated Biphenyls)
SB  - IM
MH  - Benzofurans/*chemistry
MH  - Biodegradation, Environmental
MH  - *Environmental Pollutants
MH  - *Half-Life
MH  - Kinetics
MH  - Photolysis
MH  - Polychlorinated Biphenyls/*chemistry
MH  - Polychlorinated Dibenzodioxins/*analogs & derivatives/chemistry
MH  - Polymers/*chemistry
EDAT- 2000/03/30 09:00
MHDA- 2000/05/16 09:00
CRDT- 2000/03/30 09:00
PHST- 2000/03/30 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2000/05/16 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2000/03/30 09:00 [entrez]
AID - S0045-6535(99)00337-9 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/s0045-6535(99)00337-9 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Chemosphere. 2000 May-Jun;40(9-11):943-9. doi: 10.1016/s0045-6535(99)00337-9.