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Background
The analysis of the intrinsic effects of perfluorinated organic surfactants shows the group to have a characteristic overall picture:Aim and Scope
The aim of the work was to analyse the intrinsic properties and risks of a subgroup of fluorinated organic substances.Results
A summarising article describes the toxic effects and properties of a group of substances selected from the approximately 30,000 existing substances. With regard to the ongoing debate on revising the European regulations of existing substances (REACH). it is apparent that standardised test requirements cannot be applied to impact and risk analyses which are at times highly complex. For governments, REACH only provides the starting points for this process in the form of prescribed standard tests. If a substance (or a substance group) draws attention, more detailed tests must be carried out by the industry itself in the framework of responsible care and in the framework of the evaluation step of REACH. It is therefore important that the standard requirements of REACH are selected appropriately. In this respect, the study reveals some serious deficiencies in the Commission proposal.Conclusion
The standard information for low tonnage substances (1–10 tonnes/a) must be supplemented in particular with an obligatory test on biodegradability. The possibility provided by the REACH dossier to evaluate substances on the basis of group observarions (SAR, QSAR e.g.) is to be welcomed. 相似文献2.
Aim and Scope
This study was aimed at evaluating environmental effects of tar-oil impregnated (tanalized) tree stakes using simple and efficient biotests to obtain results of its ecological impacts during the tar-oil breakdown in the stake.Results
- Soil respiration was measured in-situ as an indication of soil microbial activity in two field trials. Soil respiration was measured in a 20 year-old apple orchard at various distances from the tar-oil impregnated tree stakes and also on soil mixed with chippings from pine stakes with tar-oil impregnation of different ages.
- Cress germination tests were employed to evaluate tar-oil phytotoxicity in a field and laboratory trial. Cress was seeded close to tree stakes in the same 20 year-old apple orchard and germination rates related to tar oil-impregnation. Cress was also seeded in trays in sand mixed with pine chippings from stakes with tar-oil impregnation of different ages.
- The portion of the carcinogenic benzoapyrene (BaP) ranged between 0.0015% in freshly tar-oil impregnated to 0.4% in tar-oil impregnated 20-year old trees stakes, i.e. irrespective of the overall PAK concentration and its degradation.
- Kinetic analysis using DIXON plots showed a 50% breakdown of overall PAHs after ca. 2.7 years, i.e. km or Ki values of less than 3 years.
Conclusion
Germination tests of cress and endogenous seeds as well as soil respiration proved sensible indicators of the phytotoxicity and ecotoxicity of tar-oil impregnated tree stakes in fruit orchards. Soil respiration proved particularly sensitive to tar-oil ageing. Its combination with kinetic inhibition models resulted in parameters suitable for the interpretation of results. 相似文献3.
Background
Sorting and disposal of waste are the last steps in the “lifetime” of a product. If products are contaminated with chemicals assessed to be hazardous for man or environment, waste management has the role of a vacuum cleaner in substance chain management working in two different ways: The hazardous compounds have to be properly separated from potential secondary resources in sorting processes. If this is not possible, those products have to be disposed safely. Starting from the experiences collected with some chemicals banned, the tools used for phasing out these chemicals from the technosphere are studied with respect to their influence on the contamination of the environment.Results
Even if a dangerous substance has been banned, it is further used in a number of products. In the cases presented here, the substances were banned for further use. In the case of CFCs, the substitutes used have partially also been substituted because of adverse effects. Besides the prohibition of use of hazardous substances, numerous other regulations were issued to reduce unsafe handling and minimize emissions into the environment. It turned out that waste management cannot correct mistakes which already happened “upstream” in the product chain. The control of point sources works quite successfully, whereas today the overwhelming emissions stem from diffuse sources, partially caused by unsafe waste management procedures.Conclusions
Though there are no complete balances for both groups of compounds serving as examples, some conclusions can be drawn based on the experiences collected. Hazardous compounds may be separated successfully from used products or waste,- If they are mostly used in industry and not in households,
- if they can be identified as part of certain products,
- if their concentration in these products is rather high,
- if technical problems come up when they contaminate secondary raw materials,
- if there is international support for proper waste management.
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Walter Zerr 《Environmental Sciences Europe》2006,18(4):219-227
Goal, Scope and Background
Worldwide energy requirements are constantly increasing. Rising prices and the necessity to secure the future energy supply have led the decision-makers in politics and economy to focus on the more intensive use of their own resources. Before the background of possible climatic effects caused by the use of fossil energies, the use of renewable resources as primary energies, with its narrow C-circulation, have gained in importance, particularly in terms of economic aspects. The production of biogas is of specific interest here. It is a sensible ecological investment and a solid source of income for our agriculture.Material and Methods
The operator uses a complex biological system in a plant with high investment costs. An economic operation is only possible if the process parameters are optimized and the properties of the substrates and the co-ferments are known. For the important determination of the blogas potential, we present an efficient and robust system, which is easy to handle and low cost, that has been developed by the LHL and LLH at the Eichhof. This procedure enables one to make statements on the implementation dynamics and is also suited to judge the fermentation process depending on the size of particles, as the co-ferments are used in a practice-oriented consistency.Results
With the described fermentation apparatus you can not only assess the potential development of biogas and methane, but also the process of fermentation. The sum-graphs determined allow one to make conclusions on the implementation dynamics and, thus, on the optimization of the process. The advanced equipment makes it possible to determine the process of fermentation and the gas yield under different retention times and digester loads. The determination of the potential of the biogas and also the evaluation of the continuous fermentation are related to a specific correction factor won from the standard.Discussion
A prerequisite for economic process management is the knowledge of the attainable gas yield and the fermentation process of substrates and co-ferments. A precise calibration is the quality basis for the results achieved with this method, as is the case with other fermentation tests as well. For the tests, a highly homogeneous substrate, which guarantees a continuous biological activity in the digesters, ought to be used. The possibility of determining optimum retention times and digester loads with this equipment makes costly tests with a full scale reactor unnecessary.Conclusions
All tests run demonstrated that the fermentation apparatus originally developed to determine the biogas yield is absolutely suited to also assess the impact of different digester loads and retention times.Recommendations
The problem of the suitability and the potential of different materials, the optimum reactor performance and the combination of different processes of energy generation from renewable but also conventional resources will increaseingly become the focus of laboratory tests. The following subjects have to be taken into account:Perspective
These tests with a high practical relevance are supposed to contribute to a reliable method of producing biogas, in order to optimize the yield of gas production, but also to find a calibration of less costly procedures like those involving Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS). 相似文献5.
For the time being, simple and reliable methods which permit the imaging of the complex topography of contaminant plumes in groundwater are missing. The conventional methods for the punctual determination of contaminant concentrations cannot fulfill this demand. To successfully implement and utilize. Natural Attenuation, these deficits have to be overwhelmed. The detectors described in the following represent only part of the probing device system the authors have developed; it shall enable their user to image different aspects of plume topography and its time dependent change by monitoring within the undisturbed groundwater aquifer in groundwater measuring levels: ? relative freights of contaminants and trace contaminants by passive samplers [4] and ? redox milieu parameters by detectors. The detectors offer multi-purpose, tape-like probing devices of unlimited length. They are charged with a defined reserve of reactive substances. During monitoring actions, the derector tape hangs vertically stretched by a weight preferably covering from the top to the bottom of the whole water column. During the reaction period, the detector may be relaunched for repeated visual inspection. The colour changes of the detectors enable the identification of a row of parameters in the vertically (depth-) oriented profile by unbroken optical/visually perceivable imaging: ? Position of Redox potential thresholds for Mn-IV-Mn-II, Fe-III-Fe-II, Sulfate-Sulfide ? Position of ochre precipitation and iron-sulfide precipitation horizons ? Relative freights of the sum of substances effecting reduction (period until defined oxidant reserve has been reduced) ? Relative freights of the sum of substances effecting iron-sulfide oxidation (period until defined reductant reserve has been reduced) ? Position of dissolved iron-II ions containing horizons ? Position of dissolved hydrogen-sulfide ions/hydrogen-sulfide containing horizons ? Relative freights of iron-II ions (period until defined oxidant reserve has been reduced) ? Relative freights of hydrogen-sulfide ions/hydrogen-sulfide (period until defined oxidant reserve has been reduced). Furthermore, the detectors are also suitable for the examination of waters even of great depth, as for example artificial or natural lakes, sea and ocean basins. 相似文献
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Through their use of energy and materials, universities cause a great deal of environmental pollution which could be reduced considerably by an effective choice of organizational and technical measures. There are some examples for environmental protection measures at several universities, but a professional environmental management system (EMS) for universities with a systematic approach to reduce the consumption of resources is lacking. At the University of Osnabrück, the basis for an EMS applicable for a university has been developed for the first time in Germany and the use of this system can also be transferred to other universities. The EMS is composed of ten building blocks, for example, alteration of the administration’s organizational structure, adoption of environmental guidelines, analysis of the energy and material flows which result in an eco-balance, an environmental program or measures to inform the staff and to help to involve them in environmental management. Over the next months, these ten building blocks will gradually be implemented at the University of Osnabrück. Five articles will provide an overview about the EMS developed for the University of Osnabrück as a whole and will describe parts of the material and energy flow analysis, and the planned environmental information system. Part I: An Environmental Management Model for Universities: From Environmental Guidelines to the Involvement of Employees Part II: The Energy Balance of the University of Osnabrück: Analysis of the Energy Flows and Conclusions Part III: The Traffic Balance of the University of Osnabrück: Calculation of the Environmental Pollution which is caused by the University’s Commuters and Business Trips Part IV: A Concept of Waste Reduction for the University of Osnabrück: Constructing the Waste Balance and Measures to Inform and Involve the Staff Part V: The Planned Environmental Information System of the University of Osnabrück: Concept and Integration into the Management Information System 相似文献
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Rainer Brüggemann Andreas Kaune Laszlo Zelles Anton Hartmann Christian Steinberg 《Environmental Sciences Europe》1995,7(5):265-274
Ecotoxicological investigations focus on biological systems and their response to chemically induced stress. Experimental techniques are much more developed than deterministic dynamic modelling. In this methodological contribution a technique is presented, based on lattice theory. This technique, also calledHasse diagram technique, allows data analysis with respect to comparative evaluation. Hasse diagrams are used ? to suggest a possible measure of microbial diversity, ? to analyze dependencies between phospholipid fatty acids and simple geochemical parameters on an ordinal scale and ? to visualise complex results of interactions of humic substances with xenobiotics. 相似文献
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Metabolic adaptation of the intertidal worm Sipunculus nudus to functional and environmental hypoxia
H. -O. Pörtner U. Kreutzer B. Siegmund N. Heisler M. K. Grieshaber 《Marine Biology》1984,79(3):237-247
The scope of anaerobic metabolism of Sipunculus nudus L. was assessed from the maximal activities of some enzymes of the intermediary metabolism and from the concentration of some metabolites accumulated during enhanced muscular activity and during prolonged experimental hypoxia.
- Maximal enzyme activities demonstrate that the scope of anaerobic glycolysis, as indicated by maximal activities of glycogen phosphorylase (0.84 U g-1 fresh wt), far exceeds the aerobic capacity, which is assumed not to surpass the activity of succinate dehydrogenase (0.09 U g-1 fresh wt). Three pyruvate reductase activities (alanopine-, strombine- and octopine dehydrogenase) can possibly terminate anaerobic glycolysis.
- During muscular activity, energy is provided by the degradation of phospho-L-arginine and by anaerobic glycolysis. Octopine is the major endproduct during functional anaerobiosis while the formation of strombine is less pronounced.
- During exposure to a nitrogen atmosphere, several anaerobic endproducts are found to accumulate. Anaerobic glycolysis is terminated by strombine synthesis. This opine accumulates in concentrations much higher than octopine. In addition the concentrations of succinate, propionate and acetate are found to increase in tissues, and/or in the coelomic fluid and the incubation water.
- The relative contribution of energy by the different anaerobic metabolic pathways are estimated during functional and environmental hypoxia.
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Martin Bradshaw 《Environmental geochemistry and health》1982,4(2-3):47-61
This paper reviews the environmental problems associated with the coal-mining industry on the Yorkshire coalfield. The main environmental problems are identified as being caused by:
- The need to dispose of large quantities of colliery waste or ‘spoil’, in an environmentally acceptable manner.
- Derelict and despoiled land, including the problems caused by the re-working of old tips for their coal content.
- Opencast coal mining.
- Subsidence.
- Transportation of coal and coal waste.
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Dieter Helm 《Environmental Sciences Europe》2004,16(1):15-18
Goal and Scope
Human biomonitoring determines the concentration of xenobiotics in populations by means of smaller samples, thus necessarily arising sampling errors. These are determined.Methods
For a fictitious population of 200,000 persons, differently broad xenobiotic concentration distributions were simulated. Samples of varying size were randomly drawn and the sampling error, defined as the proportional difference between the geometric means of sample and population, was determined.Results and Conclusions
The sampling error depends on the sample size and the width of the concentration distribution; its estimation is possible for any xenobiotic, given it has lognormal distribution, and the sample size is between 10 and 50,000. For its estimation an equation was derived.Outlook
When presenting and interpreting results of human biomonitoring, the sampling error must be considered, together with the uncertainty of the measurement. 相似文献11.
Arnim von Gleich 《Environmental Sciences Europe》1998,10(6):367-373
The development of criteria for the comparative assessment of technologies and substances beyond the toxicological approach and the development of an integrated pattern of criteria is still at the beginning. The criteria presented here for integrating the precautionary principle into the substance and technology assessment have to be further operationlised and completed, in the same way as the criteria which have been discussed and developed within the framework of - the poisoning and pollutant paradigm - the equilibrium paradigm - the sustainability and “Mitwelt” paradigm - the energy and the general technology assessment debate. The resolution of the criteria has to be improved and their range (which is certainly limited) has to be explored more precisely. The application of the criteria should never occur mechanically. Technology assessment and substance assessment are not only scientific, but essentially social and, hence, discursive processes. It is not so much the assessment of individual substances which should be in the center of the debate, but rather the comparative assessment of competing techniques, substances and substancerelated development pathways (see vonGleich andRubik, 1966 as a first approach to assess the environmental effects of old and new materials). According to the example of the energy strategies, only the development of competing strategies in the substance field could create the necessary prerequisites for a broad public discourse and thus for a democratisation of the basic substancerelated policy decisions. This discourse is a duty which science and economy have toward society. 相似文献
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Epiphytic lichens as indicators for changes in air pollution and climate. Results of a comparative survey 1989/2007 in north-west Germany Background, aim, and scope Lichens growing on tree bark (epiphytic lichens) respond very sensitively to environmental effects such as chemical substances and air temperature. Therefore, they are used as biomonitors for atmospheric pollution in environmental assessments. Based on a survey of epiphytic lichens in 1989, a repetition was performed in an intensively-used agricultural area of north-west Germany in 2007. The objective of this study was to assess possible changes in air pollution and climate. Materials and methods The study is based on a comparative inventory of epiphytic lichens, growing on 335 trees at 45 monitoring sites. A simplified half quantitative survey technique of the first survey was used. Results Indeed, major changes to the epiphytic lichen flora were found. Overall, nearly all monitoring points showed an increase in the level of lichen species. A sharp decrease in acidophileous species and a sharp increase in basidophileous and nitrophileous species were detected. In addition, an increase in thermophileous species which are mainly inhabitants of southern European countries was observed, combined with decreases in boreo-montanic species. Discussion These trends correspond with supra-regional observations. They are primarily attributed to changes in air pollution involving a decrease in SO2 and an increase in NH3 concentrations. Clear effects from climate change are evident as well. Conclusions Changes to epiphytic lichens over a 18-year period could be demonstrated using a relatively low-cost investigation. They are relevant for assessing the changing environmental situation, which is of great importance for other organism groups and ecosystems. Recommendations and perspectives Using standardized techniques epiphytic lichens are suitable bioindicators for obtaining different types of information about the air pollution in urban areas and in intensively-used agricultural regions. Furthermore they are obviously good indicators of temperature changes in their environment. More research is needed about the suitability of epiphytic lichens for a biomonitoring of climate changes. 相似文献
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Wilhelm-Günther Vahrson Frank Dreger Vera Luthardt 《Environmental Sciences Europe》2000,12(6):362-372
For the two biosphere-reserves of Schorfheide-Chorin and Spreewald in the Federal State of Brandenburg, Germany, we designed a concept for a monitoring program of ecosystems which is feasible and inexpensive, and whose methodical development is transferable to other large-scale protected areas. Beside the statistical analysis of hard GIS data, we systematically used additional criteria such as naturalness, scarcity and special management, a based on expert knowledge. Thus, after an inventory of the existing ecosystems, we selected the ecosystems to be monitored from the different ecosystem groups (i.e. woods and forests, fens, lakes, rivers, arable land and grasslands) based on the following four criteria:
- dominance,
- naturalness,
- nation-wide scarcity and
- special management.
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Arnim von Gleich 《Environmental Sciences Europe》1999,11(1):21-32
The development of criteria for the comparative assessment of technologies and substances beyond the toxicological approach and the development of an integrated pattern of criteria is still at the beginning. The criteria presented here for integrating the precautionary principle into the substance and technology assessment have to be further operationalised and completed, in the same way as the criteria which have been discussed and developed within the framework of - the poisoning and pollutant paradigm - the equilibrium paradigm - the sustainability and “Mitwelt” paradigm - the energy and the general technology assessment debate. The resolution of the criteria has to be improved and their range (which is certainly limited) has to be explored more precisely. The application of the criteria should never occur mechanically. Technology assessment and substance assessment are not only scientific, but essentially social and, hence, discursive processes. It is not so much the assessment of individual substances which should be in the center of the debate, but rather the comparative assessment of competing techniques, substances and substancerelated development pathways (see vonGleich andRubik, 1966 as a first approach to assess the environmental effects of old and new materials). According to the example of the energy strategies, only the development of competing strategies in the substance field could create the necessary prerequisites for a broad public discourse and thus for a democratisation of the basic substancerelated policy decisions. This discourse is a duty which science and economy have toward society. 相似文献
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Hannelore Jäckel M. Müller Monika Nendza W. Klein A. Gies-Reuschel 《Environmental Sciences Europe》1993,5(1):11-18
Risk assessment of chemicals requires comprehensive data material, which often is not available. To provide substitutes for the lacking experimental ecotoxicological and physico-chemical data, a software-system (SAR-System) has been developed comprising more than 90 estimation models for relevant endpoints. The approach is based on quantitative structure-activity relationships (QSAR). Two major aspects characterize the SAR-System:
- The implemented models were tested for their validity and application range.
- The QSARs are accessible by a menu-driven programme package.
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The reclamation of tailing that is toxic to vegetation (phytotoxic) was the subject of laboratory and field research. Using trona tailing as an example of phytotoxic waste, research identified three areas that may be critical to reclamation: establishment and maintenance of a capillary barrier to prevent upward migration of plant toxicants into the plant-rooting zone; water drainage or evaporation to prevent or control water accumulation within the tailing; soil requirements for revegetation. A pilot reclamation program was developed in which a 20-cm layer of coarse gravel formed a capillary barrier between phytotoxic tailing and overlying material. To maintain the integrity of the capillary barrier, a 20-cm layer of fine gravel was applied to the coarse gravel surface; soil was then applied to the fine gravel surface. A zone of shallow soil was used to allow water, which collected during the late winter, to evaporate from the tailing during the dry summer. Soil depth requirements were assessed by measuring the response of shrubs and grasses to increasing soil depth. 相似文献
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Jürgen Maguhn Helmut Selinger Alexander Ziegler-Jöns Dietmar Knoppik 《Environmental Sciences Europe》1994,6(3):123-130
The effect of short-time fumigation with the peroxidic photooxidants ozone, peroxyacetyl nitrate (PAN), and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) on the gas exchange of wheat leaves was investigated. Two types of experiments are to be distinguished:
- Fumigation is carried out at atmospheric CO2 partial pressure (350 μbar) and the assimilation and transpiration rates are followed simultaneously.
- The alteration of CO2-response curves by fumigation is determined; from this, characteristic photosynthetic parameters can be calculated.
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Karl-Theo v.d. Trenck 《Environmental Sciences Europe》1997,9(2):97-106
This article discusses the evaluative criteria which are applied for the assessment of contaminated soils. Guide values for materials in the soil (reference values, test values and action levels). Such guide values can be derived based upon either functional or constitutional criteria. The leachate from the soil must be analyzed for noxious materials in order to ensure the conservation of both ground- and surface-waters. Furthermore, existing concepts and drafts for evaluating soil contamination are discussed. The great diversity of the 37 regulatory publications for evaluating soil contamination is due to 1. different purposes these guidelines are aimend at, and 2. varying philosophies with regard to the degree of safety which is considered to be acceptable: - The federal soil protection act and the directives based on it - Inherent problems with deriving test values from basic toxicological data as well as the question of a tolerable cancer risk level The procedure of linking the test values with a concrete danger to health that was designed for the federal soil protection act is discussed and compared with an alternative procedure. A presentation is given of the LABO (Länderarbeitsgemeinschaft Bodenschutz — German federal and state cooperative on soil conservation) utilization concept for soils: The use of test values for assessing soil materials with regard to particular utilization goals. The article quotes the ?Guideline for monitoring the success in soil cleanup operations” as compiled by the GDCh working group on ?Environmental chemistry and ecotoxicology” (1996). This guideline provides a review of the evaluatory concepts applied in the German states of Hamburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Brandenburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Hessen, Baden-Württemberg, as well as those of the German federal cooperative for waste regulation (LAGA). The respective procedures and specifications of Holland, Canada, the USA are also noted in this guideline. 相似文献
- The approach of the LAGA (Länderarbeitsgemeinschaft Abfall-German federal cooperative for waste regulation) is to merely avert dangerous effects of polluted land rather than to take precautionary measures.
- The approach of the state of Baden-Württemberg is to combine precautionary activities and defensive procedures in one scheme with the technical and financial feasibility as criteria for the final decision.
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Karsten Grunewald Christiana Unger Heinz -Jürgen Brauch Wido Schmidt 《Environmental Sciences Europe》2004,16(1):7-14