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Origin and Distribution of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Surface Water of Suez Gulf

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Abstract

THE SUEZ Canal is the passage to the international trade between ……east and west, thus several waste pollutants are easily disposed and dumped into the boundaries of the studied area. The pollutants vary from raw sewage, oil spills, and industrial effluents to garbage which has tremendous impacts on the marine environment. Most of these sources in the investigated area mainly occurred from the human activities, e.g. Industrial wastes, domestic draining of the Suez City and ship's oil. Distribution and origin of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons of (PAHs) in the collected water samples revealed the origin of (PAHs) is petrogenic and pyrogenic or mixture of (petrogenic and pyrogenic). Levels of PAHs varied between (1.640, 39.139) μg/L and (0.7317, 21.9373) μg/L for summer and winter, respectively. These results indicate high level of contamination. It is recommended that more effort and rules should be carried out in order to govern, prevent or even minimize the sources of pollutants.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2013.1116

Keywords

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAHs), Surface seawater, Petrogenic, Pyrogenic, Mixture of petrogenic and pyrogenic and Suez Gulf

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Article Issue

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267

Issue Date

2013-08-01

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2013-10-01

Publish Date

2013-08-30

Page Start

325

Page End

344

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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EJCHEM_Volume 56_Issue 4_Pages 325-344.pdf

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292

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Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

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