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Environmental Chemistry
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Dato’ Prof. Zaini Ujang
Ph.D., PE (M), C.Eng.(UK), C.W.E.M. (UK), C.Sci. (UK)
Institute of Environmental & Water Resource Management
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Email: zaini@utm.my
http://www.fkkksa.utm.my/staff/zaini
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Environmental Chemistry
Lecture outline
„ Pollution perspective
„ Major pollutants
„ Effects of pollutants on
ecosystems
„ Fate and behavior of chemicals in
environment
„ Environmental toxicity testing
„ Environmental monitoring
„ Instrumentations
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Introduction
Environmental components
Geosphere / lithosphere
Solid earth, including soil, which supports most plant life
Biosphere
Living entities on Earth
Hydrosphere
ECOLOGY
The study of ecosystem
Earth’s water
Atmosphere
Thin layer of gases that cover Earth’s surface
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Ecosystem
• Encompasses both living (biotic) and non-living
(abiotic) components of an area – a combination of the
community and physical and chemical components of
the local environment.
• The major feature of this ecological level is the strong
interaction between the biotic and abiotic components
• Major processes:
• Nutrient recycling
• Energy flow
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Ecosystem processes
Energy flow:
•
•
•
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Energy sources
Photosynthesis
Primary production
Secondary production
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Natural
process
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Major components & sub somponents
Environmental components
Abiotic Hydrosphere (ocean, lake, river, groundwater)
Lithosphere (solid earth, soils)
Atmosphere
Biotic
Living organisms (animal, plant, fungi, bacteria,
virus)
Dead organic matters
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Environmental components
Atmosphere
Geosphere
TECHNOLOGY
Hydrosphere
Biosphere
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Pollution Perspective
„ Multiple sources
- Natural
-Volcano
-Dust
-CO2 from respiration and fire
- Man-made
„ Urbanisation and industrialisation enhanced pollution
„ Degradation of self-purification processes
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Pollution Perspective
Manufacturing processes- from problems maker to problem solver
Reactants
Contaminants (impurities)
Reaction media
(water, organic solvents)
Catalysts
Manufacturing
process
Products &
useful by-products
Reclaimed
by-products
Recycle
Atmospheric
emissions
Discharges that may
require treatment
Wastewater
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Solids & sludges
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Pollution Perspective
Paper production, usage and disposal
Wood from
forest
-Deforestration
-Soil erosion
Pulp & paper
manufacturing
Persistent
organic
pollution
Paper
usages
Solid waste
Environmental pollution generation
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Pollution Perspective
Burning of paper and other organic materials
Global warming
Asthma
Greenhouse effect
NO2
Heat
CO2
SO2
Carcinogens
Fire
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O2
H2O
H2SO4
Acid rain
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Pollution Perspective
Pollution from water to air to soil to water to air to soil to …
Water pollution
control
Atmosphere
Acid rain
HUMAN BEING
Sludge
Pollution of
surface water
Soil pollution
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Ecological systems, disturbances & pollution
Concept of tolerance
Each species tolerate to a range of optimum for physicochemical factors:
z temperature
z pH
z light
z nutrients
z biological factors (food, competitors and predators)
Each species is most successful in that area where ranges of
optima for different factors overlap to the greatest degree
Each species within a community and habitat has different and
unique niche
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Ecological systems, disturbances & pollution
Concept of disturbance
Discrete, punctuated killing, displacement or damaging of one or more
individuals or colonies that directly or indirectly creates an opportunity for
new individuals to be become established (Sousa, 1984)
Causes a temporary or permanent shift in the community
Risk assessment can be used to identify the risk after disturbances
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Ecological systems, disturbances & pollution
Concept of pollution
Any change in the natural quality of the environment brought about
by the following factors:
z chemical
z physical
z biological
Normally, pollution causes by activities of man
Physical factors
z change naturally in short term (flood, fire, storms, etc.)
z longer term change (e.g. climate change)
z man’s activities (building, drainage, forest clearence)
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Ecological systems, disturbances & pollution
Chemical factors
Changes through elevation of concentration of substances, e.g.
z nutrients Æ eutrophication
z toxic substances Æ health risk
z organics Æ reduce quality of raw water supply
Biological factors
Biological processes like predation or grazing, non-predatory effects
like digging and man-induced events like tree felling, hunting etc.
z reduce species niche Æ ecological imbalance
z cutting trees Æ reduce oxygen generation capability
Note:
Eutrophication: Enrichment of nutrients in water bodies
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Ecological systems, disturbances & pollution
Most pollution, disturbances can be recovered
The ability to recover and rate of recovery are dependent on
the regime of disturbance:
z Nature of disturbances
z Size of the disturbed area
z Magnitude and duration of the event (intensity of disturbing force)
z Timing and frequency of the disturbance
z Predictability of the disturbance
z Turnover rate (average time required to disturb the entire area)
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Major pollutants
Water, Atmosphere, Soil
„ Sulphur dioxide
„ Nitrogen oxides and nitrate
„ Sewage
„ Agricultural waste
„ Warfare
„ Pesticides
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Centralized (and combined) WWTP
Non-treated
industrial WW
Municipal WW
Urban runoff
Partly treated
industrial WW
Public sewer
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Stormwater
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Sewage in rural and remote areas
„ Kitchen
„ Bathrooms
„ Toilets
Storm drain
Septic tanks
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Major pollutants Water, Atmosphere, Soil
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Major pollutants Water, Atmosphere, Soil
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Major pollutants Water, Atmosphere, Soil
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Number of water pollution sources by
sector to Malaysian rivers (DOE, 2001)
„ Sewage plants (6,693)
„ Manufacturing industries
(5,086)
„ Pig farming (909)
„ Agro-based industry (472)
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Sewage
manufact
uring
agroindustry
piggery
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Status of river basin water quality (DOE, 2002)
50
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
clean
slight polluted
polluted
BOD
Am-N
SS
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BOD loading by major sources, 1997-2001
1200
1000
800
agro
manufac
pig
sewage
600
400
200
0
1997
1998
1999
2000
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Water pollution in perspective …
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Water pollution in perspective …
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Interim River Water Classes
Classes
Parameters
I
II
III
IV
V
Am-Nitrogen
0.1
0.3
0.9
2.7
>2.7
BOD
1
3
6
12
>12
COD
10
25
50
100
>100
DO
7
5-7
3-5
<3
<1
pH
6.5 - 8.5
6-9
5–9
5–9
-
Color (TCU)
15
150
-
-
-
TDS
500
1000
-
4000
-
TSS
25
50
150
300
>300
FC(per 100ml)
10
100
5000
5000
-
TC(per 100ml)
100
5000
20,000
50,000
>50,000
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Pollution Distribution in Segget Catchment, JB
Locations
Before Rubbish
Trap
Estuary
Contributors
Loading (Ton/d)
Percentage (%)
Industries
0
0
Sewage
0.9
26
Non Pollution
Sources
0.4
11
Industries
0
0
Sewage
1.5
43
Non Pollution
Sources
0.7
20
3.5
100
Total
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Effects of pollutants on ecosystem
„ Introduction to food webs
„ Some specific examples
„ Risk versus benefits
„ Development of safer chemicals
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Effects of pollutants on ecosystem
Introduction to food webs
„ Food chains are dependent upon primary producers
which input energy
„ Primary energy input is derived from photosynthesis (CO2
converted to complex carbohydrates utilising sun’s energy:
CO2 + H2O
sunlight
CH2O + O2
„ The problem: energy transfer is not efficient (energy loss
as heat)
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Effects of pollutants on ecosystem
Introduction to food webs
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Effects of pollutants on ecosystem
First law of thermodynamics
Energy can be transferred from one type to another but cannot
be created or destroyed
C6H12O6 + 6O2 → 6H2O + 6CO2 + Energy
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Effects of pollutants on ecosystem
Second law of thermodynamics
No process involving an energy transformation will
spontaneously occur unless there is a degradation of the energy
from a concentrated form into a dispersed form
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Effects of pollutants on ecosystem
Schematic representation of interrelationship between 2 food chains
Sandpiper
Fox
Ptarmigan
Insects
Thundra vegetation
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Effects of pollutants on ecosystem
Complex food web showing the trophic levels
Trophic level
1
Dwarf willow
Insects
Lemming
Shaggy-haired
vole
Snowy owl
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Migratory
birds
2
3
4
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Effects of pollutants on ecosystem
7 trophic levels showing examples of organisms
Trophic level
Description
Example
1 (P)
Primary producer
Spyrogyra, oak tree
2 (C1)
Primary consumer (herbivores)
Daphnia, elephant
3 (C2)
Secondary consumer (carnivores) Water spider
4 (C3)
Tertiary consumer
Trout, wolf
5 (C4)
Quarternary consumer
Birds of prey
S
Saprophytes
Bacteria, fungi
D
Decomposers
Bacteria, earthworm
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Effects of pollutants on ecosystem
The use of dead organic matter
Dead organic
matter
Microorganims
e.g. bacteria
Detritus feeding organisms
Plants
e.g. earthworm
Predators
e.g. Blackbird
Raptors
e.g. Sparrow hawk
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Fate & behaviour of chemicals in environment
E.g. Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT)
„ Very hydrophobic molecule which acts by interfering with ion
transport systems in neuronal cell membrane
„ Inhibits neurotransmission → kills animals at certain dose
„ DDT (introduced in 1950s) is not species specific in its effects
„ DDT and related insecticides, endrin, dieldrin and aldrin are
called ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES
„ DDT revolutionised farming practices
„ DDT was developed by Swiss entomologist – Paul MÜller
„ Nobel Prize in 1948!
„ Banned in the mid-1960s in most developed countries
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Fate & behavior of chemicals in environment
DDT in food chain in the USA
Diet
Water
Plankton
Sheepshead minnow
Pickeral
Heron
Herring gull
Osprey (eggs)
Merganser
Cormorant
DDT residues (ppm)
NA
NA
Plankton
Predatory fish
Small fish
Scavenger
Larger fish
Fish
Larger fish
0.0005
0.04
0.94
1.33
3.57
6.00
13.8
22.8
26.4
Woodwelll et al. (1967) Science, 156, 821
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Risk versus benefits …
„ Life is a risky business!
„ Concept of risk is complex
RISK = HAZARD x CHANCE (OF EXPOSURE)
„ Hazard = intrinsic property of a substance or an activity
„ Occupational Safety and Health Act
„ Risk associated with exposure to chemicals is recent
„ Risk and benefit is not similar to all
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Risk versus benefits …
Is recycle is
the solution
to sustainable
waste disposal
and management?
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Development of safer chemicals
„ Organochlorines (OCs) are dangerous to environment because of its
indiscriminate toxicity
„ Environmental friendly chemicals?
„ E.g. pyrethroid insecticides
„ Pyrethrum is a mixture of several pyrethroids present in powdered
Chrysanthemum cinerariaefolium, including pyrethrin, pyretol,
pyrethrotoxic acid, pyrethrosin and chrysanthemine
„ Widely planted in Kenya
„ Pyrethroids act by modulating the gating characteristics of the sodium
channel on neuronal membrane although the exact mechanism of the
interaction between pyrethorid molecule and membrane sodium channel
is not fully understood
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Development of safer chemicals
Chemicals and
products are
to be disposed
at high cost, or
discharge to
environment
without proper
treatment at all
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Environmental toxicity testing
Toxicity testing in perspective
„ Extrapolating the results of toxicity test in rats (& other
animals to humans)
„ The best is to use human body
„ Ethical problems, especially in pharmaceutical industry
„ Scope and limitations
„ Oestogenicity assay
„ Toxicity tests on animals and plants
„ Environmental impacts assessment
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Environmental monitoring
„ Why monitor environmental contaminants
„ Methods
„ Meaning of analytical results
„ Analytical techniques
„ Identification of environmental contaminants
„ Inorganic contaminants
„ Immunoassays
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