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Sadeq Abullah Abdo Alkhadher1, Mohamad Pauzi Zakaria2, Fatimah Md Yusoff3, Narayanan Kannan4, Suhaimi Suratman5, Mehrzad Keshavarzifard1, Sami Muhsen Magam1, Najat Masood1, Vahab Vaezzadeh1, Muhamad Shirwan Abdullah Sani6.
Abstract
Sewage pollution is one of major concerns of coastal and shoreline settlements in Southeast Asia, especially Brunei. The distribution and sources of LABs as sewage molecular markers were evaluated in surface sediments collected from Brunei Bay. The samples were extracted, fractionated and analyzed using gas chromatography- mass spectrometry (GC-MS). LABs concentrations ranged from 7.1 to 41.3 ng g(-1) dry weight (dw) in surficial sediments from Brunei Bay. The study results showed LABs concentrations variably due to the LABs intensity and anthropogenic influence along Brunei Bay in recent years. The ratio of Internal to External isomers (I/E ratio) of LABs in sediment samples from Brunei Bay ranged from 0.56 to 2.17 along Brunei Bay stations, indicating that the study areas were receiving primary and secondary effluents. This is the first study carried out to assess the distribution and sources of LABs in surface sediments from Brunei Bay, Brunei.Entities:
Keywords: Brunei; Brunei Bay; I/E ratio; Linear alkylbenzenes (LABs); Sewage
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Year: 2015 PMID： 26478457 DOI： 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2015.10.011
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Mar Pollut Bull ISSN： 0025-326X Impact factor: 5.553