Hidrocarbonetos policíclicos aromáticos em sedimentos e organismos bentônicos do Terminal de Miramar (Baía do Guajará - Belém - Pará - Amazônia)

ABSTRACT: In Guajará bay, mouth of the Amazon River, is located the capital of Pará state (Belém) and its metropolitan area. Exists in this area an intense boat traffic, as well as transportation and sale of fuels in floating docks and activities related to the storage and transportation of oil in Miramar Petrochemical Terminal (TEMIR). Small spills and discharges of oil in water can serve as sources of pollution by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). PAHs are organic compounds generated by incomplete combustion of organic matter (OM) and are among the contaminants of most interest in environmental studies due to their mutagenic and carcinogenic potential. One way to detect and evaluate the impact of PAHs in an environment is using biomonitors, however the qualitative and quantitative analysis in sediments are most widely used. This study aimed to evaluate, by Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS), the 16 PAHs considered as priority by the Environmental Protection Agency of the United States in sediments and benthic organisms (Namalicastys abiuma) of TEMIR. Field expeditions were carried out in December 2012, March, May and June 2013 representing the dried, wet (two samples) and dried seasons successively. Fine sediments levels dominated in both sampling periods and the %Fines in Guajará bays has a direct relationship to the %OM. In relation to the 16 PAHs studied, 10 of them were detected in the wet season sediments samples and 8 in the dried season. Even with a low diversity of aromatic compounds, sediment samples of the dried season presented greater ΣHPAs (1.351,43 ng g^-1) than the sediments of the wet season (263,99 ng g^-1), which can be related to the increased hydrodynamic in Guajará bay this last period. Correlation analysis indicated that ΣHPAs not seem to be influenced by %Fine and %OM. Benzo(a)pyrene accounted for 87% of ΣHPAs during the wet season, the other PAHs showed percentage ≤ 3%. During the other period stood out: pyrene (18% of ΣHPAs) fluoranthene (16%), the chrysene, benzo(b)fluoranthene (15%) and benzo(a)pyrene (11%). The use of the geochemical reason to interpret likely sources of PAHs indicated that there is a predominance of aromatics from pyrolytic origin in TEMIR. The activities that may be responsible for the PAHs levels observed in sediments and benthic organisms in TEMIR are the discharge of untreated domestic sewage and the emissions of particulates from cars and small/medium boats. The ΣHPAs seems to influence the density of polychaetes because a reduction of about 50% in the number of organisms was observed during the dry season when there was the greater amount of ΣHPAs in their body structure. Among the 16 PAHs studied, 11 were detected in the polychaetes during the dry season (ΣHPAs_MED = 848,71 ng g^-1) and 10 in the wet season (ΣHPAs_MED = 141,85 ng g^-1). Were highlighted during the dried season: indeno(1,2,3-c,d)pyrene (47%) and pyrene (23%). While in the wet season: pyrene (23%), chrysene (17%), fluorene (17%) and fluoranthene (13%). The %Rec obtained was >>100% indicating a matrix effect and reducing the quantitative accuracy of results. The use of the polychaete N. abiuma as biomonitor of pollution by PAHs in estuaries not seem to be effective when the sample period is limited, because collecting it requires a great effort to obtain a small amount of mass and it still results in a matrix effect in the chromatographic analysis (method %Rec >> 100%) that may not be corrected due to the restricted availability of sample mass. Studies with a larger number of samples, enabling depth statistical analysis, and covering other collection points in Guajará bay are required to prove mathematically that has been stated in this dissertation.

Detecção e localização de descargas parciais em transformadores de potência utilizando sinais acústicoas transitórios e o método GSPS

Neste trabalho, é desenvolvido um método de localização de descargas parciais, em transformadores de potência, baseado no algoritmo GPS (Global Positioning System). Para a análise da estrutura, foi desenvolvido um solftware, no qual as equações diferenciais que representam a propagação de ondas acústicas são resolvidas numericamente através do método Acoustic Finite Difference Time Domain (AFDTD), cujo domínio computacional é truncado através da técnica CPML (Convolutional Perfectly Matched Layer). Os resultados obtidos são comparados a estimativas produzidas utilizando-se sinais elétricos relativos às descargas.

Relações entre raios e chuvas na Amazônia Oriental

O objetivo desse estudo foi analisar a relação entre descargas elétricas, associadas à precipitação dentro de áreas selecionadas no leste da Amazônia no período de setembro de 2008 a dezembro de 2010. Os estudos foram realizados dentro de um raio de 100 km centralizados em pluviômetros instalados das localidades de Belém, Caxiuanã e Santarém. Essas áreas foram escolhidas por encontrarem-se aproximadamente na mesma latitude, e vão se distanciando do Oceano Atlântico, buscando observar a sazonalidade dos sistemas precipitantes causadores de raios e sua penetração no continente, observando as características climatológica distintas de cada área. Os dados de chuvas foram obtidos através do banco de dados da ANA, RPCH, INMET e através do Projeto LBA. Os sistemas meteorológicos de grande escala acompanhados de sistemas de escala menores, parecem atuar primeiramente em Belém e vão adentrando o continente atingindo as outras áreas de estudo. Em Belém, também foram observadas as maiores ocorrências de raios comparados com Caxiuanã e Santarém, sendo que nessas localidades, os raios antecedem as chuvas em quase todas as observações. Foram observadas as defasagens dos máximos de ocorrências de raios e chuvas de aproximadamente dois meses acompanhando principalmente o sentido norte sul de deslocamento da ZCIT e seu acoplamento com outros sistemas de escala local ou de meso escala. Foi feito um estudo de caso em Belém e Santarém onde observou-se que a ZCIT não segue o mesmo padrão de deslocamento para as duas localidades , ou seja, ela atinge primeiramente Belém e aproximadamente três dias depois o sistema atingiu a cidade de Santarém. Mesmo com essa defasagem de tempo foi visto que nas duas localidades as ocorrências de raios antecederam as chuvas. Também foi realizado um estudo pioneiro dentro das bacias do Tocantins e Xingu sobre a relação entre raios e chuva, na tentativa de se desenvolver uma alternativa de método auxiliar para prognostico dos períodos de cheias e secas dentro dessas bacias através das ocorrências de raios sobre essas áreas. Os estudos mais detalhados foram realizados nas áreas a montante das barragens de Tocantins onde se encontra a usina hidroelétrica de Tucuruí, e dentro da área da bacia do Xingu onde está sendo construída a barragem de Belo Monte. Foram utilizados dados de precipitação pluviométrica das bacias do Tocantins e Xingu obtidos através da HIDROWEB-ANA operados pela CPRM dentro de cada área de estudo. Usando filtros de médias móveis foram observados que as melhores correlações entre raios e chuvas, se encontravam dentro da bacia do Tocantins, provavelmente pela influencia da presença da barragem na bacia do Tocantins onde possibilitou respostas positivas entre a relação da cota do rio com os raios. Considerando o fato de que o período de dois anos de dados não possuem peso estatístico suficiente para estabelecer relações definitivas entre raios e precipitação, os resultados apresentados devem ser considerados como preliminares. No entanto essa metodologia pode ser aplicada para subsidiar modelos de estimativas de precipitação em localidades selecionadas e aplicações no modelamento hidrológico de bacias hidrográficas, onde dados pluviométricos ainda são escassos no leste da Amazônia.

Avaliação in vivo e in vitro do potencial citotóxico, genotóxico e mutagênico da água e do sedimento do rio Corumbataí - São Paulo, Brasil

Pós-graduação em Ciências Biológicas (Biologia Celular e Molecular) - IBRC

Efeitos da contaminação fecal sobre a dinâmica e a estrutura da alça microbiana em areias de praias do litoral norte do estado de São Paulo

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Estudo e desenvolvimento do índice potencial de impacto de descargas atmosféricas em linhas de transmissão

Pós-graduação em Engenharia Mecânica - FEG

Amorphous silicon carbonitride films modified by plasma immersion ion implantation

Amorphous silicon carbonitride (a-SiCN:H) films were deposited from hexamethyldisilazane (HMDSN) organic compounds via radio-frequency (RF) glow discharges. Afterwards the films were bombarded, from 15 to 60 min, with nitrogen ions using Plasma Immersion Ion Implantation (PIII) technique. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) showed that O-containing groups increased, while C-C and/or C-H groups decreased with treatment time. This result indicates chemical alterations of the polymeric films with the introduction of polar groups on the surface, which changes the surface wettability. In fact, the hydrophobic nature of a-SiCN:H films (contact angle of 100 degrees) was changed by nitrogen ion implantation and, and after aging in atmosphere air, all samples preserved the hydrophilic character (contact angle <80 degrees) independently of treatment time. The exposure of the films to oxygen plasma was performed to evaluate the etching rate, which dropped from 24% to 6% while the implantation time increased from 15 to 60 min. This data suggests that Pill increased the film structure strength, probably due to crosslinking enhancement of polymeric chains. Therefore, the treatment with nitrogen ions via Pill process was effective to modify the wettability and oxidation resistance of a-SiCN:H films. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Origin and function of short-latency inputs to the neural substrates underlying the acoustic startle reflex

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Differential environmental impacts on small and medium size rivers from center of São Paulo State, Brazil, and regional management perspectives

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Avaliação do potencial genotóxico e mutagênico do efluente de uma refinaria de petróleo e dos rios sob sua influência, por meio de bioensaios com Oreochromis niloticus (Perciformes, Cichlidae)

The petrochemical industry represents a sector of intense activity, in constant expansion and great economic importance for Brazil. In order to be used in various human activities petroleum needs to suffer a refinement process that, besides requiring large amounts of water, produces large amounts of wastes, which are discharged in hydric resources. Petroleum is a complex mixture mainly comprised by hydrocarbons, many of them are recognized as toxic chemicals, which are able to induce a considerable environmental pollution. Since water is an important resource for the maintenance of ecosystems and is also the final receiver of effluent discharges of the petroleum industry, there is an imminent need to monitor, constantly, the hydric resources that are influenced by this industrial activity, so that it can be ensured the environmental health. This study aimed, mainly, to analyze the quality of water samples derived from refinement process performed of the largest petroleum refinery in Brazil (REPLAN), in distinct steps of the industry treatment, and waters of rivers associated to its activity. Micronuclei and Nuclear Abnormalities tests were performed in erythrocytes of the fish species Oreochromis niloticus exposed to water samples derived from refinery use and to rivers under the influence of their effluents, in order to evaluate its possible toxic, genotoxic and mutagenic effects. The results obtained show that the treatment carried out by the refinery, during the evaluated periods, was effective, since the substances present in the water samples did not induce significant genotoxic and/or mutagenic alterations in the genetic material of the test organisms. On the other hand, when the substances present in the refinery effluent mix with the ones derived from other industrial activities developed upstream of this industry, the resultant compound, in some periods, presented genotoxic potencial, characterized by a rise of erythrocytic...

Remoção de cromo de resíduos de curtumes por argilitos da formação Corumbataí - SP

The tanning wastes are characterized to be significant sources of pollution in the hydrosphere when non adjusted or disposed adequated form. That happens because this industry type uses the chromium to tan hides, and this element is present in discharges concentrations in final wastes, characterizing this waste type as dangerous, according to the Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas, através da Norma Brasileira 10.004 de 2004. Due to this, the research proposes a form to reduction chromium of the tanning wastes through the process of adsorption. For that were used mining-wastes of Corumbataí Formation clays, material commonly used in the production of ceramic products in Rio Claro (SP). They were accomplished laboratory essays that involved the preparation of different clays pulps and subsequent mixture of these with the tanning wastes, maintaining them under different mixing times and adsorption contacts. After the separation of the mixtures, the leached were chemically analyzed and it was seen the efficiency of chromium reduction and your relationship with the variation of different times of contact clays/wastes and different grain sizes used in the pulps preparation.

Pós-processamento de formas de ondas oriundas de descargas atmosféricas no Centro de Estudos de Descargas Atmosféricas e Alta Tensão (CENDAT) – IEE/USP

Atmospheric Discharges are responsible for several lost in the electrical system therefore it´s done studies to find ways to reduce the problem caused by discharges. This branch of engineering is necessary the gathering, stock and analysis of large quantity of data to validate or refuse the many studies produced about it The CENDAT proposed a project to collect data on induced voltages in distribution lines and current waveform of the lightning, but a difficulty that arose was the accumulation of data due to lack of manpower available to catalog all the data collected. Thinking in this difficulty, the engineer Acacio Silva Neto CENDAT´s researcher with trainees began to develop a program to solve this problem. This work keeps the development of this program in order to solve the problem of accumulation of data

Algumas considerações geográficas sobre as descargas elétricas atmosféricas no Estado de São Paulo

The atmospheric events denominated electric discharges are complexes and represent social, economic and environmental damages. For this research, it was made the bibliographical survey about this matter, mapping, phenomenon and victims analysis that occurred at The State of São Paulo, between 2005/2006

As vazões de outorga das bacias hidrográficas dos rios Aguapeí e Peixe

This work presents procedures for getting data to estimate grant flow by means of statistical and hydrological methods, acquired during the graduate course, of some streams in the watersheds of Aguapeí and Peixe rivers, in order to make available this data set to Sao Paulo State water and electrical energy department – DAEE and to the Committees of Aguapeí and Peixe watersheds. This study was performed using discharge data and the were a selection process to identify some faults in the historical series. Finally it was calculated the 7-day moving averages, Q7 and some characteristics discharges like Q90 and Q95. Taking into account the average discharge en seven days in a 10-year recurrence interval, it was estimated the grant flow of some streams. Data were generated for six posts inside the Aguapei and Peixe watersheds

Monitoramento hidrossedimentlógico da bacia hidrográfica do alto rio Sucuriú (MS) contribuinte da PCH Costa Rica

The growing demand for electricity in Brazil has stimulated the implementation of Small Hydro Power (PCH) in various regions of the country. However, the silting of reservoirs is a major problem faced by power plants and power plants. In this context, this study aimed to evaluate the data hydrosedimentological strategic points of the watershed of the Alto Rio Sucuriú (MS) to identify the possible causes siltation of the reservoir PCH Costa Rica and suggest mitigation measures. Hydrosedimentological surveys were conducted during the rainy season (February / March 2012) and drought (August 2012), and obtained data flow, discharge liquid, suspended solids and bottom and organic matter content. Based on these results it was determined that the points 2, 4, 7 and 9 are the largest contributors to sedimentation, and point 4 got most liquid discharge (38,20 m3s-1), point 7 largest discharge of solid suspension (906,3 mg L-1), points 2 and 4 major discharges solid totals (231,59 t dia-1 and 238,185 t dia-1 respectively) and point 9 higher organic matter content (22,18%) . Found greater fraction of fine sand and very fine suspended solids and solid medium sand in the background. As mitigation measures for the process of silting of the reservoir PCH Costa Rica (MS) highlights the orientation of landowners in adopting conservation measures and planting of leguminous species native to the region in symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing bacteria