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Article

Disinfection By-Products (DBPs) in Seawaters, Sediments and Biota near a Marine Terminal for Regasifying Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) in the Northern Adriatic Sea (Italy)

by
Federica Cacciatore
1,*,
Marina Amici
2,
Giulia Romanelli
2,
Valentina Bernarello
1,
Gianluca Franceschini
1,
Massimo Gabellini
2 and
Claudia Virno Lamberti
2,*
1
ISPRA—Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale, Brondolo no. 5, 30015 Chioggia, Italy
2
ISPRA—Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale, Via Vitaliano Brancati 48, 00144 Roma, Italy
*
Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Processes 2021, 9(12), 2175; https://doi.org/10.3390/pr9122175
Submission received: 10 November 2021 / Revised: 26 November 2021 / Accepted: 27 November 2021 / Published: 2 December 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Monitoring of Organic Contaminants)
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Abstract

In 2009, the first Italian offshore LNG terminal, located approximately 12 km from the coast of Italy in the Northern Adriatic Sea, started its operation phase. Even if the active chlorine concentration in the discharged seawater is within limits set by Italian regulations (0.2 mg/L), to verify the environmental impact of disinfection by-products (DBPs) on the ecosystem, a specific monitoring program was scheduled from 2010 to 2015. The present study is the first displaying results of DBPs in marine waters of the Adriatic Sea. During the first two years of monitoring activities, DBPs were slightly above limit of quantifications (LOQs) in all investigated matrices and limited to the nearest area around the terminal. In these surveys, bromoform was the most frequently detected compound in seawaters, while haloacetic acid presence, as well as transplanted mussels and fish fauna, mostly characterized sediments. In the following surveys, levels were mostly negligible in all matrices investigated, with values mostly below the specific LOQs of the different compounds.
Keywords: VDbPs; HAAs; HAPhs; biomonitoring; mussel watch; marine LNG terminal VDbPs; HAAs; HAPhs; biomonitoring; mussel watch; marine LNG terminal

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Cacciatore, F.; Amici, M.; Romanelli, G.; Bernarello, V.; Franceschini, G.; Gabellini, M.; Virno Lamberti, C. Disinfection By-Products (DBPs) in Seawaters, Sediments and Biota near a Marine Terminal for Regasifying Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) in the Northern Adriatic Sea (Italy). Processes 2021, 9, 2175. https://doi.org/10.3390/pr9122175

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Cacciatore F, Amici M, Romanelli G, Bernarello V, Franceschini G, Gabellini M, Virno Lamberti C. Disinfection By-Products (DBPs) in Seawaters, Sediments and Biota near a Marine Terminal for Regasifying Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) in the Northern Adriatic Sea (Italy). Processes. 2021; 9(12):2175. https://doi.org/10.3390/pr9122175

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Cacciatore, Federica, Marina Amici, Giulia Romanelli, Valentina Bernarello, Gianluca Franceschini, Massimo Gabellini, and Claudia Virno Lamberti. 2021. "Disinfection By-Products (DBPs) in Seawaters, Sediments and Biota near a Marine Terminal for Regasifying Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) in the Northern Adriatic Sea (Italy)" Processes 9, no. 12: 2175. https://doi.org/10.3390/pr9122175

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Cacciatore, F., Amici, M., Romanelli, G., Bernarello, V., Franceschini, G., Gabellini, M., & Virno Lamberti, C. (2021). Disinfection By-Products (DBPs) in Seawaters, Sediments and Biota near a Marine Terminal for Regasifying Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) in the Northern Adriatic Sea (Italy). Processes, 9(12), 2175. https://doi.org/10.3390/pr9122175

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