Prospects of emerging PAH sources and remediation technologies: insights from Africa

K Sam, AP Onyena, N Zabbey, CK Odoh… - … Science and Pollution …, 2023 - Springer
Remediation of polluted environmental media is critical to realization of the goals of the
United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (UNDER) project. Many natural-resource …

Levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the water and sediment of Buffalo River Estuary, South Africa and their health risk assessment

AO Adeniji, OO Okoh, AI Okoh - Archives of environmental contamination …, 2019 - Springer
The incidence and spatial distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the
Buffalo River Estuary in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa were assessed in this …

[HTML][HTML] Holocene fire dynamics and their climatic controls on the southern Cape coast of South Africa-A 7.2 ka multi-proxy record from the peatland Vankervelsvlei

P Strobel, T Henning, M Bliedtner, SG Mosher… - Quaternary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Fire is a natural phenomenon along South Africa's southern Cape coast, but identifying its
climatic drivers has been a subject of considerable debate. This study investigates the …

Occurrence, distribution, spatio-temporal variability and source identification of n-alkanes and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in water and sediment from Loskop …

MP Seopela, RI McCrindle, S Combrinck, W Augustyn - Water research, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, the spatial and temporal variations in the levels of C8-C40 n-alkanes and 18
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in water and sediment from Loskop Dam …

Assessing the external exposome using wearable passive samplers and high-resolution mass spectrometry among South African children participating in the …

JP Koelmel, EZ Lin, K DeLay, AJ Williams… - Environmental …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Children in low-and middle-income countries are often exposed to higher levels of
chemicals and are more vulnerable to the health effects of air pollution. Little is known about …

Development of a turn-on graphene quantum dot-based fluorescent probe for sensing of pyrene in water

SA Nsibande, PBC Forbes - RSC advances, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are potentially harmful pollutants that are emitted
into the environment from a range of sources largely due to incomplete combustion. The …

L-Cysteine-capped core/shell/shell quantum dot–graphene oxide nanocomposite fluorescence probe for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon detection

O Adegoke, PBC Forbes - Talanta, 2016 - Elsevier
Environmental pollutants, such as the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), become
widely distributed in the environment after emission from a range of sources, and they have …

A review of monitoring of airborne polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: An African perspective

CF Munyeza, ER Rohwer, PBC Forbes - Trends in Environmental Analytical …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this review, we focus on the status of the monitoring of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
(PAHs) in ambient air as well as in living (indoor) and working environments in Africa from …

Spatio–temporal distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in urban soils in Cape Town, South Africa

RA Omores, F Wewers, PO Ikhide, T Farrar… - International journal of …, 2017 - Springer
The spatial and seasonal distribution of eight US Environmental Protection Agency priority
poly aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs); namely benzo (b) fluoranthene, benzo (a) pyrene …

A systematic assessment of research trends on polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in different environmental compartments using bibliometric parameters

AO Adeniji, K Okaiyeto, MJ George, EB Tanor… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are a large group of diverse hazardous organic
compounds that are relatively stable and widely distributed throughout the world's …