PMID- 25619918
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20160108
LR  - 20181202
IS  - 1879-3363 (Electronic)
IS  - 0025-326X (Linking)
VI  - 93
IP  - 1-2
DP  - 2015 Apr 15
TI  - Organic pollution in surficial sediments of Tripoli harbour, Lebanon.
PG  - 284-93
LID - S0025-326X(15)00020-X [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2015.01.004 [doi]
AB  - Tripoli harbour is among the most important ports on the Mediterranean Sea 
      eastern basin. The persistent organic pollutants (POPs) were monitored (28 PCBs, 
      16 PAHs and 18 Me-PAHs) in 15 stations of Tripoli harbour basins, which are 
      influenced by anthropogenic activities. Total PAHs concentrations ranged from 243 
      to 2965 mug kg(-1)dw, total Me-PAH concentrations ranged from 54 to 1638 mug 
      kg(-1)dw, while total PCB levels ranged from 18 to 302 mug kg(-1)dw. PCBs profiles 
      were dominated by four and six-chlorinated congeners while the PAHs were 
      dominated by four and five rings. For identifying pollution emission sources of 
      PAHs, different ratios were used. The results show that the pollution origin was 
      predominated by pyrogenic process related to the deposition of coal dust and the 
      combustion of biomass and coal. Based on Sediments Quality Guidelines the 
      biological adverse effects on aquatic ecosystems were expected rarely to 
      occasionally for PAHs and PCBs contamination.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Merhaby, Dima
AU  - Merhaby D
AD  - Universite de Lille, Equipe Physico-Chimie de l'Environnement, LASIR UMR CNRS 
      8516, Batiment C8, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France; Universite Libanaise, 
      Faculte de sante publique section III, Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Eau et de 
      l'Environnement (L.S.E.E), Tripoli, Lebanon.
FAU - Net, Sopheak
AU  - Net S
AD  - Universite de Lille, Equipe Physico-Chimie de l'Environnement, LASIR UMR CNRS 
      8516, Batiment C8, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France.
FAU - Halwani, Jalal
AU  - Halwani J
AD  - Universite Libanaise, Faculte de sante publique section III, Laboratoire des 
      Sciences de l'Eau et de l'Environnement (L.S.E.E), Tripoli, Lebanon.
FAU - Ouddane, Baghdad
AU  - Ouddane B
AD  - Universite de Lille, Equipe Physico-Chimie de l'Environnement, LASIR UMR CNRS 
      8516, Batiment C8, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France. Electronic address: 
      baghdad.ouddane@univ-lille1.fr.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20150122
PL  - England
TA  - Mar Pollut Bull
JT  - Marine pollution bulletin
JID - 0260231
RN  - 0 (Coal)
RN  - 0 (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons)
RN  - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical)
RN  - 844ODP31Q0 (2,4,4'-trichlorobiphenyl)
RN  - DFC2HB4I0K (Polychlorinated Biphenyls)
SB  - IM
MH  - Coal
MH  - Ecosystem
MH  - Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Geologic Sediments/*chemistry
MH  - Lebanon
MH  - Mediterranean Sea
MH  - Polychlorinated Biphenyls/analysis
MH  - Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons/analysis
MH  - Water Pollutants, Chemical/*analysis
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Harbour
OT  - Me-PAHs
OT  - PAHs
OT  - PCBs
OT  - SQGs
OT  - Sediments
EDAT- 2015/01/27 06:00
MHDA- 2016/01/09 06:00
CRDT- 2015/01/27 06:00
PHST- 2014/07/18 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2014/12/16 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2015/01/04 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2015/01/27 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/01/27 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/01/09 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0025-326X(15)00020-X [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2015.01.004 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Mar Pollut Bull. 2015 Apr 15;93(1-2):284-93. doi: 
      10.1016/j.marpolbul.2015.01.004. Epub 2015 Jan 22.