Sorption of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) on marine sediments.pdfVIP

Marine Pollution Bulletin 64 (2012) 902–906 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Marine Pollution Bulletin journal homepage: www.elsevi /locat e/marpolbul Sorption of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) on marine sediments Hong Chen, Can Zhang, Yixuan Yu, Jianbo Han ⇑ Key Laboratory of Coastal Ecology and Environment of State Oceanic Administration, Department of Marine Chemistry, National Marine Environmental Monitoring Center, Linghe Road 42, Dalian 116023, China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Keywords: Sorption of anionic perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) on marine sediment was investigated in detail. It PFOS was found that solution ionic composition and sediment-specific parameters played important roles in Marine affecting the sorption of PFOS. The results indicated that sorption of PFOS in seawater to marine sedi- Sorption ments was strong (10 times higher than that in freshwater) and nonlinear (Freundlich nF values of Ionic composition 0.77–0.96). The sorption affinity was well correlated with sediment organic carbon content, indicating Sediment the importance of hydrophobic interactions. At a PFOS aqueous concentration of 10 lg/L, PFOS distribu- tion coefficients increased with the increasing salinity in solution, with an average rate of 0.48 ± 0.03 log units p