Recent advances in PCB removal from historically contaminated environmental matrices

K Šrédlová, T Cajthaml - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite being drastically restricted in the 1970s, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) still
belong among the most hazardous contaminants. The chemical stability and dielectric …

Passive sampling-based versus conventional-based metrics for evaluating remediation efficacy at contaminated sediment sites: A review

JS Grundy, MK Lambert… - Environmental science & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Passive sampling devices (PSDs) are increasingly used at contaminated sites to improve
the characterization of contaminant transport and assessment of ecological and human …

Codeployment of passive samplers and mussels reveals major source of ongoing PCB inputs to the Anacostia River in Washington, DC

NJ Lombard, M Bokare, R Harrison… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Remedial investigations of sites contaminated with legacy pollutants like polychlorinated
biphenyls (PCBs) have traditionally focused on map** sediment contamination to develop …

New insights into sustainable in-situ fixation of heavy metals in disturbed seafloor sediments

Y Yao, Y Feng, H Li, Y Cui, M Liu, J Wang - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
To address the issues of plume formation and heavy metal ion release during deep-sea
mining operations, this study employed multi-sourced mineral composite roasting materials …

Equilibrium porewater measurement of PCBs and PAHs using direct water extraction and comparison with passive sampling

S Yan, M Bokare, U Ghosh - Environmental Science & Technology, 2022 - ACS Publications
The freely dissolved concentration of hydrophobic pollutants in sediment porewater (C pw)
is a critical driver for exposure to aquatic organisms, bioaccumulation, toxicity, and flux …

Long-term monitoring and modeling of PAHs in capped sediments at the Grand Calumet River

U Garza-Rubalcava, AV Smith, C Thomas… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
The assessment of a cap for remediation of sediments requires long-term monitoring
because of the slow migration of contaminants in porous media. In this study, coring and …

Bioaccumulation in fish (Cyprinodon variegatus) during rejuvenations of a thin active cap over field-aged PCB contaminated sediment: The effect of clean versus …

PT Gidley, GR Lotufo, AJ Kennedy… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Repeated addition of activated carbon (AC) via the water column was applied to rejuvenate
sorption capacity of thin AC-amended sand caps placed over polychlorinated biphenyl …

Microbial and chemically induced reductive dechlorination of polychlorinated biphenyls in the environment

MZ Hashmi, AF Mughal - Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 2025 - Springer
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are persistent organic pollutants and are emitted during e-
waste activities. Once they enter into the environment, PCBs could pose toxic effects to …

Quantitative thermodynamic exposure assessment of PCBs available to sandworms (Alitta virens) in activated carbon remediated sediment during ongoing sediment …

PT Gidley, GR Lotufo, SN Schmidt, P Mayer… - … Science: Processes & …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Marine mesoscale studies with sandworms (Alitta virens) were conducted to isolate
important processes governing the exposure and bioaccumulation of polychlorinated …