Oil Shale, 2007, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 483–494

 

PASSIVE AIR SAMPLING OF PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS IN TWO ESTONIAN AIR MONITORING STATIONS

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O. ROOTS, A. SWEETMAN

 

The Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology Group of Lancaster University, United Kingdom, has completed a large European-scale air sampling campaign within the framework of the project, POPs Fate Model­ling. Samplers were deployed at remote, rural and urban locations (71 stations) in 22 countries, two Estonian stations – Lahemaa-background EMEP station and Kohtla-Järve industrial (oil shale chemistry) region sta­tion – among them. This paper presents data on a range of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), organo­chlorine pesticides (hexachlorocyclobenzene (HCB), hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH), ppDDE, ppDDT), polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and polychlorinated naphthalenes (PCN) deter

 

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