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Literature Review: Biological Monitoring of Occupational Tetrachloroethylene Exposure in Workers

The Indonesian Journal of Occupational Safety and Health, 2021
Introduction: One of the most common chlorinated solvents in the world is tetrachloroethylene (TCE) because it is widely used in various industries. Exposure to tetrachloroethylene can cause health problems so biological monitoring is necessary to do ...
Dina Tri Amalia, Muhammad Ilyas
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A probabilistic assessment of surface water-groundwater exchange flux at a PCE contaminated site using groundwater modelling

Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023
Polluted groundwater discharge at a chlorinated solvent contaminated site in Hagfors, Sweden, is affecting a nearby stream flowing through a sparsely populated area.
Nikolas Benavides Höglund, Charlotte Sparrenbom, Rui Hugman   +2 more
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Determination of eight volatile halogenated hydrocarbons in drinking water by headspace thermal desorption⁃gas mass spectrometry

Shanghai yufang yixue, 2022
ObjectiveTo establish a method for the determination of 8 volatile halogenated hydrocarbons in drinking water， including vinyl chloride， trichloroethylene， tetrachloroethylene， tetrachloromethane， chloroform， dichlorobromomethane， dichlorodibromomethane，
YU Juan, ZHENG Lei, XI Ye, ZHAN Ming
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Long-term Neurotoxic Effects of Early-life Exposure to Tetrachloroethylene-contaminated Drinking Water

Annals of Global Health, 2016
Background: Tetrachloroethene (PCE) is a common environmental and occupational contaminant and an acknowledged neurotoxicant. From 1968 through 1983, widespread contamination of public drinking water supplies with PCE occurred in the Cape Cod region of ...
Ann Aschengrau, Patricia A. Janulewicz, Roberta F. White, Veronica M. Vieira, Lisa G. Gallagher, Kelly D. Getz, Thomas F. Webster, David M. Ozonoff   +7 more
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Effects of highly volatile organochlorine solvents on nitrogen metabolism and microbial counts

Soil and Water Research, 2012
The effects of highly volatile organochlorine solvents (1,1,1-trichloroethane, TCET; trichloroethylene, TCE; and tetrachloroethylene, PCE) on soil nitrogen cycle and microbial counts were investigated using volcanic ash soil with different fertilizations.
Hiromasa KIYOTA, Shinji OTSUKA, Akihito YOKOYAMA, Satoshi MATSUMOTO, Hidenori WADA, Shinjiro KANAZAWA   +5 more
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Exposure to Volatile Organic Compounds in Paint Production Plants: Levels and Potential Human Health Risks

Toxics, 2023
A wide range of volatile organic solvents, including aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons, alcohols, and ketones, are used in the production of paints, and they comprise more than 30% of the ingredients of paints.
Safiye Ghobakhloo, Amir Hossein Khoshakhlagh, Simone Morais, Ashraf Mazaheri Tehrani   +3 more
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Removal of Tetrachloroethylene from Aqueous Solutions by Adsorption on Clay Minerals

Adsorption Science & Technology, 2015
The objective of this study was to assess the adsorption capacity of Moroccan stevensite for the removal of tetrachloroethylene from aqueous solutions.
A. Gil, A. Elmchaouri, Y. El Mouzdahir, S.A. Korili   +3 more
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Effects of Plastic Pollution of Soil on the Growth and Survival of Bacteria and Fungi

Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management, 2021
The study examined the effect of plastic waste on soil bacteria and fungi. The test soil samples were collected from Lokoja international market waste dump site and the control soil sample was collected from non plastic contaminated garden in ...
U. Udochukwu, S.E. Emmanuel, E.O. Ehinmitan, R.S. Bodunde, J.O. Isheke   +4 more
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Catalytic Hydrodechlorination of Dichloromethane, Chloroform and Tetrachloroethylene

Revista Facultad de Ingeniería Universidad de Antioquia, 2006
Kinetic parameters (reaction rate constants, reaction order and activation energies) were determined for dichloromethane hydrodechlorination in the presence of chloroform and tetrachloroethylene traces (loading between 0.3-0.8%) over Pd catalysts ...
Carlos Andrés González, Felipe Bustamante, Consuelo Montes de Correa   +2 more
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Degradation of tetrachloroethylene by zero valent iron nanoparticles in the presence of a natural groundwater bacterial biofilm in a sandy porous media

Heliyon, 2021
Biofilms are naturally present in aquifers and can interact with zero valent iron nanoparticles (nZVI) used as remediation agents in contaminated groundwater; thereby they may alter nZVI reactivity towards targeted contaminants in porous media ...
Marc Crampon, Jennifer Hellal, Christophe Mouvet, Patrick Ollivier   +3 more
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