PMID- 30684781
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20190320
LR  - 20190320
IS  - 1879-1298 (Electronic)
IS  - 0045-6535 (Linking)
VI  - 221
DP  - 2019 Apr
TI  - Microplastics and associated PAHs in surface water from the Feilaixia Reservoir 
      in the Beijiang River, China.
PG  - 834-840
LID - S0045-6535(19)30021-9 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.01.022 [doi]
AB  - Microplastics have been a prevalent and persistent contamination problem in the 
      global aquatic environment. In particular, microplastics that can adsorb 
      persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and therefore transfer these POPs to 
      organisms in the aquatic environment have received much attention. In this study, 
      an investigation of microplastics in the surface water of the Feilaixia Reservoir 
      (Guangdong Province, China), which is an important part of people's daily lives 
      in Guangdong Province was carried out, mainly focusing on the characteristics and 
      spatial distribution of microplastics, as well as microplastics and their 
      adsorded PAHs in the surface water of the Feilaixia Reservoir were investigated. 
      The average abundance of microplastics in the surface water of the Feilaixia 
      Reservoir was 0.56 +/- 0.45 items/m(3). Six kinds of polymers, including 
      polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polystyrene (PS), expanded polystyrene 
      (EPS), polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and polyethylene terephthalate (PET), were 
      identified, among which PP (52.31%) and PE (27.39%) were the major compositions. 
      Four shapes of microplastics, i.e., foams, films, fragments and fibers were 
      found, and films (37.78%) being the main shape. The most common typical size of 
      the plastic particles ranged from 0.6 to 2 mm (41.36%). The total concentration 
      of the sixteen PAHs carried on the EPS, PE and PP microplastics ranged from 282.4 
      to 427.3 ng/g; chrysene, benzo [ghi] perylene, and phenanthrene were abundant in 
      the samples, at concentrations of 39.5-89.6 ng/g, 34.6-56.8 ng/g and 
      25.6-45.6 ng/g, respectively. Based on the ratios of the PAH isomers (Flut/Py < 1 
      and Phe/Ant >10), it was speculated that the source of the PAHs may be derived 
      from the imperfect combustion of fossil fuels.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Tan, Xiangling
AU  - Tan X
AD  - School of Chemical Engineering and Light Industry, Guangdong University of 
      Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, China.
FAU - Yu, Xubiao
AU  - Yu X
AD  - Faculty of Architectural, Civil Engineering and Environment, Ningbo University, 
      Zhejiang, 315211, China.
FAU - Cai, Liqi
AU  - Cai L
AD  - School of Chemical Engineering and Light Industry, Guangdong University of 
      Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, China.
FAU - Wang, Jundong
AU  - Wang J
AD  - School of Chemical Engineering and Light Industry, Guangdong University of 
      Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, China.
FAU - Peng, Jinping
AU  - Peng J
AD  - School of Chemical Engineering and Light Industry, Guangdong University of 
      Technology, Guangzhou, 510006, China. Electronic address: Jppeng@gdut.edu.cn.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20190104
PL  - England
TA  - Chemosphere
JT  - Chemosphere
JID - 0320657
RN  - 0 (Fossil Fuels)
RN  - 0 (Plastics)
RN  - 0 (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons)
RN  - 0 (Water Pollutants, Chemical)
SB  - IM
MH  - Adsorption
MH  - China
MH  - Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Fossil Fuels/adverse effects
MH  - Plastics/*chemistry
MH  - Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons/analysis/*chemistry
MH  - *Rivers
MH  - Water Pollutants, Chemical/*chemistry
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Feilaixia Reservoir
OT  - GC-MS
OT  - Microplastics
OT  - PAHs
OT  - Surface water
EDAT- 2019/01/27 06:00
MHDA- 2019/03/21 06:00
CRDT- 2019/01/27 06:00
PHST- 2018/09/10 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2018/12/17 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2019/01/03 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2019/01/27 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2019/03/21 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2019/01/27 06:00 [entrez]
AID - S0045-6535(19)30021-9 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.01.022 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Chemosphere. 2019 Apr;221:834-840. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2019.01.022. Epub 
      2019 Jan 4.