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Role of oxygen in sunlight induced photodegradation of organophosphorous flame retardants in river waters

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dc.contributor Sans Mazón, Carme
dc.creator Cruz Alcalde, Alberto
dc.date 2018-10-16T17:19:59Z
dc.date 2018-10-16T17:19:59Z
dc.date 2016-06
dc.date.accessioned 2024-12-16T10:26:52Z
dc.date.available 2024-12-16T10:26:52Z
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/2445/125375
dc.identifier.uri http://fima-docencia.ub.edu:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/21602
dc.description Màster d'Enginyeria Ambiental, Facultat de Química, Universitat de Barcelona, Curs: 2015-2016, Tutora: Carme Sans Mazón
dc.description The persistence of organophosphorous flame retardants (OPFR) on the aquatic environment has motivated the study of their degradation processes in superficial water, particularly the sunlight induced photodegradation mechanisms. A recent study showed that some of these substances, with a low capacity for solar radiation absorption, became surprisingly photodegraded. Indirect photolysis promoted by the photosensitizer properties of this micropollutants constitutes a suitable explanation for this phenomenon. The objective of this project was to investigate the photodegradation indirect mechanisms of OPFR in superficial water, in which singlet oxygen (1O2) appeared to develop an important role. By means of two different procedures, chemical probe photobleaching and spin-trapping experiments, the specific aim was the detection and identification of this species in the reaction medium. Although photobleaching procedures applied to monitor reactions involving singlet oxygen have been widely used, the reported experimental conditions are quite different from the ones required to observe OPFR photosensitizing effects. Thus, several assays were carried out in first place in order to adapt the experimental settings. In spite of that, results did not shown clear evidences about the generation of singlet oxygen during the experiments, regardless of the chemical probe employed. The great competence for singlet oxygen, stablished in the reaction medium, seems to minimize the concentration of this species in there, thus making difficult its detection. For their part, spin-trapping procedures demonstrated to be useful to reliably detect and identify the singlet oxygen molecules generated along the process. Because of its high sensitivity to excited structures, this method allows to effectively detect the presence of 1O2, even when this species is present at very low concentrations in the bulk solution
dc.format 46 p.
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language eng
dc.rights cc-by-nc-nd (c) Cruz, 2016
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.source Màster Oficial - Enginyeria Ambiental
dc.subject Aigües superficials
dc.subject Biodegradació
dc.subject Treballs de fi de màster
dc.subject Runoff
dc.subject Biodegradation
dc.subject Master's theses
dc.title Role of oxygen in sunlight induced photodegradation of organophosphorous flame retardants in river waters
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis


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