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Sorption Kinetics and Transformation of DDT in Sediment

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The overall objective of this study was to investigate the sorption kinetics of DDT in sediment under similar experimental conditions employed in corresponding toxicity studies for bentic organisms. A batch of aerated Schoonrewoerdse Wiel sediment, initially spiked with DDT, was sampled over a period of seven days. Concentrations of DDT, DDD and DDE were determined in both the solid and the solution phase in the sediment/water system after separation by centrifugation. It was found that the extractable amount of DDT decreased with increasing contact time. This can partly be explained in terms of transformation of DDT into DDD. Furthermore, the present applied extraction procedure seems to be less effective with increasing contact time, indicating an increase in binding strength of DDT with the sediment material. Finally, on the basis of DDT, DDE and DDD concentrations in both the solid phase and the solution phase, partition coefficients were calculated, which appeared to be independent of the contact time. This points at a very rapid equilibrating between DDT in pore water and in the extractable forms adsorbed at the solid phase.

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  1. National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, P.O. Box 1, 3720 BA, Bilthoven, The Netherlands

    Marc A. G. T. van den Hoop & Petra Kreule

  2. Department of Geochemistry, Institute of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80.021, 3508 TA, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    J. P. Gustav Loch

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van den Hoop, M.A.G.T., Kreule, P. & Gustav Loch, J.P. Sorption Kinetics and Transformation of DDT in Sediment. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution 110, 57–66 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005087429581

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