Understanding the atmospheric measurement and behavior of perfluorooctanoic acid

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2041-2046

  Webster, Eva M ^a   Ellis, David A ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atmospheric sampling artifact; Multimedia model; Neutral organic contaminant; Particle gas partition coefficient; Perfluorinated carboxylic acids

Indexed keywords

MULTIMEDIA MODELS; ORGANIC CONTAMINANT; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PERFLUORINATED CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; SAMPLING ARTIFACTS;

ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; GASES;

CARBOXYLIC ACIDS;

PERFLUOROOCTANOIC ACID;

AIR SAMPLING; ARTIFACT; ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBOXYLIC ACID; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PARTITION COEFFICIENT;

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CHEMICAL PARAMETERS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ARTIFACTS; ATMOSPHERE; CAPRYLATES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FLUOROCARBONS; GASES; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84865336575     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: 15528618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/etc.1932     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. Barton CA, Kaiser MA, Butler LE, Botelho MA. 2009. Comment on "Irreversible sorption of trace concentrations of perfluorocarboxylic acids to fiber filters used for air sampling, " by Arp and Goss. Atmos Environ 43: 3652-3653.
2. Arp HPH, Goss K-U. 2009. Response to Comment on "Irreversible sorption of trace concentrations of perfluorocarboxylic acids to fiber filters used for air sampling, " by Arp and Goss. Atmos Environ 43: 3654-3655.
3. Mader BT. 2009. Comment on "Aerosol enrichment of the surfactant PFO and mediation of the water-air transport of gaseous PFOA." Environ Sci Technol 43: 1232-1233.
4. Dreyer A, Ebinghaus R. 2009. Polyfluorinated compounds in ambient air from ship- and land-based measurements in northern Germany. Atmos Environ 43: 1527-1535.
5. Shoeib M, Vlahos P, Hamer T, Peters A, Graustein M, Narayan J. 2010. Survey of polyfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) in the atmosphere over the northeast Atlantic Ocean. Atmos Environ 44: 2887-2893.
6. Beser IM, Pardo O, Beltran J, Yusá V. 2011. Determination of per- and polyfluorinated substances in airborne particulate matter by microwave-assisted extraction and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. J Chromat A 1218: 4847-4855.
7. Arp HPH, Goss K-U. 2008. Irreversible sorption of trace concentrations of perfluorocarboxylic acids to fiber filters used for air sampling. Atmos Environ 42: 6869-6872.
8. Cousins IT, Kong D, Vestergren R. 2011. Reconciling measurement and modelling studies of the sources and fate of perfluorinated carboxylates. Environ Chem 8: 339-354.
9. Armitage JM, MacLeod M, Cousins IT. 2009. Modeling the global fate and transport of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanoate (PFO) emitted from direct sources using a multispecies mass balance model. Environ Sci Technol 43: 1134-1140.
10. Butt CM, Berger U, Bossi R, Tomy GT. 2010. Levels and trends of poly- and perfluorinated compounds in the arctic environment. Sci Total Environ 408: 2936-2965.
11. Niisoe T, Harada KH, Ishikawa H, Koizumi A. 2010. Long-term simulation of human exposure to atmospheric perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanoate (PFO) in the Osaka Urban Area, Japan. Environ Sci Technol 44: 7852-7857.
12. Deyer A, Matthias V, Weinberg I, Ebinghaus R. 2010. Wet deposition of poly- and perfluorinated compounds in Northern Germany. Environ Pollut 158: 12221-12227.
13. Ahrens L, Shoeib M, Harner T, Lane DA, Guo R, Reiner EJ. 2011. Comparison of annular diffusion denuder and high volume air samplers for measuring per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in the atmosphere. Anal Chem 83: 9622-9628.
14. Mackay D. 2001. Multimedia Environmental Models: The Fugacity Approach, 2nd ed. Lewis, Boca Raton, FL, USA, pp 1-261.
15. Bidleman TF, Harner T. 2000. Sorption to aerosols. In Mackay D, Boethling RS, eds, Handbook of Property Estimation Methods for Chemicals: Environmental and Health Sciences. CRC, Boca Raton, FL, USA, pp 233-260.
16. Mackay D, Paterson S, Schroeder WH. 1986. Model describing the rates of transfer processes of organic chemicals between atmosphere and water. Environ Sci Technol 20: 810-816.
17. Finizio A, Mackay D, Bidleman T, Harner T. 1997. Octanol-air partition coefficient as a predictor of partitioning of semi-volatile organic chemicals to aerosols. Atmos Environ 31: 2289-2296.
18. Arnot JA, Mackay D, Webster E, Southwood JM. 2006. A screening level risk assessment model for chemical fate and effects in the environment. Environ Sci Technol 40: 2316-2323.
19. Arnot JA, Mackay D, Sutcliffe R, Lo B. 2010. Estimating farfield organic chemical exposures, intake rates and intake fractions to human age classes. Environ Model Softw 25: 1166-1175.
20. Harada K, Nakanishi S, Saito N, Tsutsui T, Koizumi A. 2005. Airborne perfluorooctanoate may be a substantial source contamination in Kyoto area, Japan. Bull Environ Contam Toxicol 74: 64-69.
21. Kim S-K, Kannan K. 2007. Perfluorinated acids in air, rain, snow, surface runoff, and lakes: Relative importance of pathways to contamination of urban lakes. Environ Sci Technol 41: 8328-8334.
22. Webster E, Ellis DA, Reid LK. 2010. Modeling the environmental fate of perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctanoate: An investigation of the role of individual species partitioning. Environ Toxicol Chem 29: 1466-1475.
23. Webster E, Mackay D, Di Guardo A, Kane D, Woodfine D. 2004. Regional differences in chemical fate model outcome. Chemosphere 55: 1361-1376.
24. Kim K-H, Pandey SK, Nguyen HT, Chung S-Y, Cho S-J, Kim M-Y, Oh J-M, Sunwoo Y. 2010. Long-term behavior of particulate matters at urban roadside and background locations in Seoul, Korea. Transport Res D 15: 168-174.
25. 2.5, and inorganic constituents of atmospheric particulate matter at multiple Canadian locations. J Air Waste Manage Assoc 47: 2-19.
26. Salvador P, Artíñano B, Querol X, Alastuey A. 2008. A combined analysis of backward trajectories and aerosol chemistry to characterize long-range transport episodes of particulate matter: The Madrid air basin, a case study. Sci Total Environ 390: 495-506.
27. Barton CA, Kaiser MA, Russell MH. 2007. Partitioning and removal of perfluorooctanoate during rain events: The importance of physical-chemical properties. J Environ Monit 9: 839-846.
28. Barton CA, Botelho MA, Kaiser MA. 2008. Solid vapor pressure and enthalpy of sublimation for perfluorooctanoic acid. J Chem Eng Data 53: 939-941.
29. Kaiser MA, Larsen BS, Kao C-PC, Buck RC. 2005. Vapor pressures of perfluorooctanoic, -nonanoic, -decanoic, -undecanoic, and -dodecanoic acids. J Chem Eng Data 50: 1841-1843.
30. Vierke L, Ahrens L, Shoeib M, Reiner EJ, Guo R, Palm W-U, Ebinghaus E, Harner T. 2011. Air conentrations and particle-gas partitioning of polyfluoroalkyl compounds at a wastewater treatment plant. Environ Chem 8: 363-371.
31. Ahrens L, Shoeib M, Harner T, Lee SC, Guo R, Reiner EJ. 2011. Wastewater treatment plant and landfills as sources of polyfluoroalkyl compounds to the atmosphere. Environ Sci Technol 45: 8098-8105.
32. Webster EM, Ellis DA. 2011. Equilibrium modeling: A pathway to understanding observed perfluorocarboxylic and perfluorosulfonic acid behavior. Environ Toxicol Chem 30: 2229-2236.
33. Woodcroft MW, Ellis DA, Rafferty SP, Burns DC, March RE, Stock NL, Trumpour KS, Yee J, Munro K. 2010. Experimental characterization of the mechanism of perfluorocarboxylic acids' liver protein bioaccumulation: The key role of the neutral species. Environ Toxicol Chem 29: 1669-1677.
34. Stock NL. 2007. Occurrence and fate of perfluoroalkyl contaminants in the abiotic environment. PhD thesis. University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.