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Muthukumar Anbazhagi Dhanraj Loganathan Subramani Tamilselvan Raj Jayabalou Senthilkumar Kamatchiammal Rakesh Kumar 《洁净——土壤、空气、水》2007,35(2):167-171
Cryptosporidium is an enteric parasitic protozoan capable of causing chronic diarrhea. One of the most common modes of transmission is through faeces‐contaminated water. This study determines the distribution of Cryptosporidium oocysts for the first time in Chennai City's drinking water supply. 199 drinking water samples were collected from ten zones of the city. In the water samples Cryptosporidium, a common pathogenic protozoan of the gastrointestinal tract, has been analyzed physico chemically as well as microbiologically for heterotrophic organisms and total coliforms (TC). The studies revealed that three zones of the city were highly contaminated with coliforms and parasitic protozoa. A statistical analysis was done to find any correlation between heterotrophic organisms, total coliforms, and oocysts. Even though a positive correlation exists between oocysts and bacteriological parameters, a regression equation shows that heterotrophic plate count (HPC) and total coliforms were only 20% responsible for the presence of oocysts. The level of Cryptosporidium oocysts isolated from the water samples may present a public health hazard although no major outbreaks have so far been reported in Chennai City. Routine surveillance of water quality throughout the city is needed to curb the pollutants. 相似文献
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Sorption of Co, Zn, Ca and Na by δ-MnO2 was studied at 24.0 ± 0.5°C and pH 4. During the sorption of Co and Zn, Mn was released to the solution phase; however, Mn release was not detected during the sorption of Ca and Na. On the basis of crystal field theory, it is proposed that Zn may interchange with Mn2+ in the δ-MnO2 structure, whereas Co may interchange with both Mn2+ and Mn3+. It is suggested that the interchangeable Mn2+ and Mn3+ sites were in the disordered layers in the δ-MnO2 structure.Sorption of Co, Zn and Ca at pH 4 fitted single-site Langmuir isotherm expressions at all Ca concentrations, but only at concentrations greater than 10?4 M for Co and Zn. Mn release by δ-MnO2 at pH 4 during Co and Zn sorption also fitted single-site Langmuir isotherms. An expression for the case of multisite Langmuir sorption was derived and applied to the cases of Co and Zn sorption and to the case of Mn release during Co sorption. The data of these cases were used to calculate statistically the coefficients of multiple regression equations from which the sum of the capacities of all sites in each case were obtained. From all of these derived capacities, it is proposed that there was only one site where Ca interchanged with surface bound H. Zn was postulated to interchange not only with these bound H sites, but also with another site where it interchanged with structural Mn2+. Co was postulated to interchange with both of these sites, and additionally, with a third site where it interchanged with structural Mn3+.Using a pH-stat set at pH 4, it was determined that approximately 2 moles of H were released per mole of Co or Zn sorbed at bound H sites. 相似文献
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Starting with an outline of spectral radiance calculation for infrared bands, a simulation study has been presented for 11.1, 8.3, 7.3 and 6.7 μm. Detailed response of the spectral radiance to the meteorological parameters has been studied by generating simulated atmospheric temperature and moisture profiles for Indian atmospheres. It has been found that the responses of the 8.3, 7.3 and 6.7 μm bands are maximum for lower troposphere, middle troposphere and upper troposphere respectively, and these spectral radiances are linearly related to the water vapour content of the relevant layers. The thermal IR window at 11.1 μm is found to be sensitive to not only surface temperature and total water vapour content but also to the boundary layer values of mean temperature and water vapour content.
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Environmental hazards of fluoride in volcanic ash: a case study from Ruapehu volcano, New Zealand 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Shane J. Cronin V. E. Neall J. A. Lecointre M. J. Hedley P. Loganathan 《Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research》2003,121(3-4):271-291
The vent-hosted hydrothermal system of Ruapehu volcano is normally covered by a c. 10 million m3 acidic crater lake where volcanic gases accumulate. Through analysis of eruption observations, granulometry, mineralogy and chemistry of volcanic ash from the 1995–1996 Ruapehu eruptions we report on the varying influences on environmental hazards associated with the deposits. All measured parameters are more dependent on the eruptive style than on distance from the vent. Early phreatic and phreatomagmatic eruption phases from crater lakes similar to that on Ruapehu are likely to contain the greatest concentrations of environmentally significant elements, especially sulphur and fluoride. These elements are contained within altered xenolithic material extracted from the hydrothermal system by steam explosions, as well as in residue hydrothermal fluids adsorbed on to particle surfaces. In particular, total F in the ash may be enriched by a factor of 6 relative to original magmatic contents, although immediately soluble F does not show such dramatic increases. Highly soluble NaF and CaSiF6 phases, demonstrated to be the carriers of ‘available’ F in purely magmatic eruptive systems, are probably not dominant in the products of phreatomagmatic eruptions through hydrothermal systems. Instead, slowly soluble compounds such as CaF2, AlF3 and Ca5(PO4)3F dominate. Fluoride in these phases is released over longer periods, where only one third is leached in a single 24-h water extraction. This implies that estimation of soluble F in such ashes based on a single leach leads to underestimation of the F impact, especially of a potential longer-term environmental hazard. In addition, a large proportion of the total F in the ash is apparently soluble in the digestive system of grazing animals. In the Ruapehu case this led to several thousand sheep deaths from fluorosis. 相似文献
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Vijay A. Loganathan Mark O. Barnett T. Prabhakar Clement Sushil R. Kanel 《Applied Geochemistry》2009,24(11):2051-2060
Iron-coated sands were prepared via two common protocols, a precipitation method, where Fe was precipitated directly onto the sand in a single step, and an adsorption method, where pure goethite was prepared in the first step and then adsorbed onto the sand in a second step. The coated sands from both the systems were characterized using scanning electron microscopy, energy-dispersive spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, and selective Fe extraction. Although neither of the methods produced a completely crystalline Fe coating, the precipitation method produced sands with larger portions of amorphous Fe than the adsorption method, with the fraction of amorphous Fe decreasing with increasing Fe content. Uranium(VI) adsorption isotherms and pH adsorption edges were measured on three coated sands with Fe contents ranging from 0.04% to 0.3%. Experimentally, the adsorption of U(VI) onto the three sands was more comparable when normalized to surface area than when normalized to Fe content. A surface complexation model, although originally developed for U(VI) adsorption onto amorphous Fe oxide, captured the differences in adsorption when adjusted for the surface area of the coated sand. The findings indicate that surface area is a better scaling parameter than Fe content in predicting U(VI) adsorption to Fe-dominated media. These findings are significant because many common surface complexation models are parameterized on the basis of Fe content rather than specific surface area. Although the interactions of U(VI) and Fe-coated sands were used as representative adsorbate and adsorbent, the general principles may be applicable to other adsorbate–adsorbent systems as well. 相似文献
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The sediment record, as revealed in sediment cores, can be used to reconstruct the history of contaminant input into estuaries. The basic assumptions are that contaminant inputs equilibrate relatively rapidly with sediment inputs and that the sediment column represents a continuous sequence of sediment and associated contaminant accumulation. With radiochemical chronologies, it is possible to date sediments over a period corresponding to about five half-lives (100 years for 210Pb). In our study we reconstruct the pollution history of the Savannah Estuary, which is a typical estuary in the South Atlantic Bight. A series of cores were taken in the estuary, followed by the analysis of the cores for a variety of organic and inorganic contaminants. Ages were assigned to different depth intervals by the use of two radiotracers, 210Pb and 137Cs. The major pesticides found were an isomer of DDT and dieldrin. The peak in their concentrations (1967) correlated with peak use of these pesticides before their use was banned. Between 1959 and 1962, there was more input of anthropogenic PAHs than before and after this period. The metals which showed significant changes in the cores include mercury, lead and chromium. Chromium reached a maximum during the late 1950s, followed by a decrease in the late 1960s. This chromium peak coincided with the initial operation of a titanium dioxide pigment plant in the Savannah Estuary. An interesting aspect of the study, which has been noted by many pollution history studies, was the decrease in the concentration of anthropogenic chemicals during the past two decades, suggesting that pollution controls have been effective, even while industrial and population growth was taking place.Similar studies have been carried out to reconstruct the historical record of contamination in the Baltic Sea. Concentrations of metals were found to increase after 1880 (industrial revolution in northern Europe). PCBs peaked in concentration in the late 1960s and the early 1970s, while DDT peaked in the 1960s. The Baltic experienced a major input of nutrients (N and P) after 1965 resulting from heavy use of fertilizers in this region. 相似文献
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A direct linear relationship between water vapour content of lower, middle and upper-middle troposphere respectively with the radiances for 8.3, 7.3 and 6.7 μm spectral observations has been attempted. From the atmospheric simulations such a relationship is found to exist with a good degree of correlation and is seen to be quite insensitive to temperature changes. Such an approach is used to interpret the water vapour imageries obtained from TIROS-N sounder through construction of detailed water vapour distribution maps. 相似文献
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K. A. Maruya B. G. Loganathan K. Kannan S. McCumber-Kahn R. F. Lee 《Estuaries and Coasts》1997,20(4):700-709
Sediment samples from 281 estuarine sites in the Gulf of Mexico were collected in 1993–1994 and analyzed for several classes of organic and organometallic compounds as part of the Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were the contaminant class found most frequently and in the highest concentrations; the sum of 24 congeners (ΣPAHs) ranged from <5 ng g?1 to 15.500 ng g?1 (dry wt basis). A low percentage of samples (3.9%) exceeded 2000 ng g?1 ΣPAHs, and only six samples (2.1%) exceeded 4000 ng g?1, a level above which adverse biological effects may be expected to occur. Less than 4% of sediments exceeded 20 ng g?1 for the sum of 20 polychlorinated biphenyls (ΣPCBs) and only four samples (1.4%) exceeded 20 ng g?1 for the sum of several organochlorine pesticides (ΣOCPs). A sample from Freeport Harbor, Texas, contained 4230 ng g?1 ΣPAHs, 322 ng g?1 ΣPCBs, and 49.6 ng g?1 ΣOCPs. Tributyltin exceeded 100 ng g?1 in only four samples, all of which were from stations in Corpus Christi Bay or Galveston Bay in Texas. The detection of a suite of organophosphate pesticides was very rare and did not exceed 15 ng g?1. Sediments from the tidally influenced section of the Mississippi River in Louisiana contained low to moderate levels of all classes of organic compounds. The most contaminated sites were in urban estuaries (e.g., Corpus Christi, Galveston, and Pensacola (Florida bays), underscoring the need to concentrate future monitoring and assessment efforts at the regional and local level. 相似文献