Effects of suspended sediment on POCIS sampling rates.
Effects of chemical uptake onto polar organic chemical integrative samplers (POCIS) exposed to total suspended solid (TSS) sediment concentrations of 0 and 3600 ppm were investigated for 12 pesticides at constant concentration, temperature, and flow velocity. The effects of sediment exposure on POCIS uptake were negligible for compounds with polyethersulfone-water partition coefficients greater than three (i.e., log KPESW > 3). However, significant effects were observed for 3 of 12 compounds tested, and the maximum effect was an approximate 4-fold increase in sampling rate for the sediment experiment relative to the control. Effects of sediment on the pesticide distribution between polyethersulfone (PES) membranes and Oasis HLB sorbent were also investigated. The fraction of pesticide accumulated on PES membranes was relatively low for most compounds and ranged from 0 to 33%. In contrast, four compounds with higher affinity for PES accumulated preferentially on the membranes (fraction ranging from 64 to 96%), suggesting that a sampling rate derived from the additive contribution of membrane extraction and the more typical extraction of analytes from HLB sorbent would improve the sensitivity of sampling rate estimations for these compounds. However, for these same compounds, the combined sampling rate, Rs (HLB + PES), was considerably more susceptible to a sediment effect than the traditional sampling rate determination, relying solely on extraction from HLB sorbent.
['Djomte|Valerie Toteu|VT|', 'Chen|Sunmao|S|', 'Chambliss|C Kevin|CK|']
D004784:Environmental Monitoring D019015:Geologic Sediments D008567:Membranes, Artificial D009930:Organic Chemicals D010575:Pesticides D011108:Polymers D013450:Sulfones D014867:Water D014874:Water Pollutants, Chemical
Sediment Sampling rate Pesticides PES membrane Organic contaminant Passive sampler