PMID- 28993999
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20181030
LR  - 20181113
IS  - 1614-7499 (Electronic)
IS  - 0944-1344 (Linking)
VI  - 24
IP  - 36
DP  - 2017 Dec
TI  - Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in background air around the Aegean: 
      implications for phase partitioning and size distribution.
PG  - 28102-28120
LID - 10.1007/s11356-017-0285-7 [doi]
AB  - The occurrence and atmospheric behavior of tri- to deca-polybrominated diphenyl 
      ethers (PBDEs) were investigated during a 2-week campaign concurrently conducted 
      in July 2012 at four background sites around the Aegean Sea. The study focused on 
      the gas/particle (G/P) partitioning at three sites (Ag. Paraskevi/central 
      Greece/suburban, Finokalia/southern Greece/remote coastal, and Urla/Turkey/rural 
      coastal) and on the size distribution at two sites (Neochorouda/northern 
      Greece/rural inland and Finokalia/southern Greece/remote coastal). The lowest 
      mean total (G + P) concentrations of  summation operator(7)PBDE (BDE-28, BDE-47, BDE-66, BDE-99, 
      BDE-100, BDE-153, BDE-154) and BDE-209 (0.81 and 0.95 pg m(-3), respectively) 
      were found at the remote site Finokalia. Partitioning coefficients, K (P), were 
      calculated, and their linear relationships with ambient temperature and the 
      physicochemical properties of the analyzed PBDE congeners, i.e., the subcooled 
      liquid pressure (P (L) degrees ) and the octanol-air partition coefficient (K (OA)), were 
      investigated. The equilibrium adsorption (P (L) degrees -based) and absorption (K 
      (OA)-based) models, as well as a steady-state absorption model including an 
      equilibrium and a non-equilibrium term, both being functions of log K (OA), were 
      used to predict the fraction Phi of PBDEs associated with the particle phase. The 
      steady-state model proved to be superior to predict G/P partitioning of BDE-209. 
      The distribution of particle-bound PBDEs across size fractions < 0.95, 0.95-1.5, 
      1.5-3.0, 3.0-7.2, and > 7.2 mum indicated a positive correlation between the mass 
      median aerodynamic diameter and log P (L) degrees  for the less brominated congeners, 
      whereas a negative correlation was observed for the high brominated congeners. 
      The potential source regions of PBDEs were acknowledged as a combination of 
      long-range transport with short-distance sources.
FAU - Besis, Athanasios
AU  - Besis A
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3225-2555
AD  - Department of Chemistry, Environmental Pollution Control Laboratory, Aristotle 
      University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece. athanasb@chem.auth.gr.
FAU - Lammel, Gerhard
AU  - Lammel G
AD  - Research Centre for Toxic Compounds in the Environment, Masaryk University, Brno, 
      Czech Republic.
AD  - Multiphase Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, 
      Germany.
FAU - Kukucka, Petr
AU  - Kukucka P
AD  - Research Centre for Toxic Compounds in the Environment, Masaryk University, Brno, 
      Czech Republic.
AD  - School of Science and Technology, Man-Technology-Environment Research Center 
      (MTM), Orebro University, Orebro, Sweden.
FAU - Samara, Constantini
AU  - Samara C
AD  - Department of Chemistry, Environmental Pollution Control Laboratory, Aristotle 
      University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
FAU - Sofuoglu, Aysun
AU  - Sofuoglu A
AD  - Department of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Research Center, Izmir 
      Institute of Technology, Urla, Izmir, Turkey.
FAU - Dumanoglu, Yetkin
AU  - Dumanoglu Y
AD  - Department of Environmental Engineering, Dokuz Eylul University, Kaynaklar, 
      Izmir, Turkey.
FAU - Eleftheriadis, Kostas
AU  - Eleftheriadis K
AD  - Institute of Nuclear Technology and Radiation Protection, NCSR Demokritos 
      Institute, Athens, Greece.
FAU - Kouvarakis, Giorgos
AU  - Kouvarakis G
AD  - Department of Chemistry, Environmental Chemical Processes Laboratory, University 
      of Crete, Heraklion, Greece.
FAU - Sofuoglu, Sait C
AU  - Sofuoglu SC
AD  - Department of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Research Center, Izmir 
      Institute of Technology, Urla, Izmir, Turkey.
FAU - Vassilatou, Vassiliki
AU  - Vassilatou V
AD  - Institute of Nuclear Technology and Radiation Protection, NCSR Demokritos 
      Institute, Athens, Greece.
FAU - Voutsa, Dimitra
AU  - Voutsa D
AD  - Department of Chemistry, Environmental Pollution Control Laboratory, Aristotle 
      University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20171009
PL  - Germany
TA  - Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
JT  - Environmental science and pollution research international
JID - 9441769
RN  - 0 (Air Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Halogenated Diphenyl Ethers)
SB  - IM
MH  - Adsorption
MH  - Air Pollutants/*analysis
MH  - *Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Greece
MH  - Halogenated Diphenyl Ethers/*analysis
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Absorption/adsorption models
OT  - Aerosol mass size distribution
OT  - Gas/particle partitioning
OT  - Long-range transport
EDAT- 2017/10/11 06:00
MHDA- 2018/10/31 06:00
CRDT- 2017/10/11 06:00
PHST- 2017/04/11 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2017/09/19 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2017/10/11 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2018/10/31 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2017/10/11 06:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1007/s11356-017-0285-7 [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s11356-017-0285-7 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2017 Dec;24(36):28102-28120. doi: 
      10.1007/s11356-017-0285-7. Epub 2017 Oct 9.