ArticleMarine pollution bulletin2023
Impacts of exhaust gas cleaning systems (EGCS) discharge waters on planktonic biological indicators.
Article in Marine pollution bulletin, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Very Low Concentrations of Maritime Exhaust Gas Cleaning System Effluent Impair Fertilization and Larval Development in the Green Sea UrchinEnvironmental science & technology · 2026Article
- Bridging marine microbiota ecology and IMO policy: rethinking open-loop scrubber environmental impacts.Sustainable microbiology · 2026Review
- Study on Separation of Desulfurization Wastewater in Ship Exhaust Gas Cleaning System with Rotating Dynamic Filtration.Membranes · 2025Article
- De novo transcriptome assembly of Acartia tonsa adults using Nanopore long-read sequencing.Scientific data · 2025Article
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15 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems (EGCS), operating in open-loop mode, continuously release acidic effluents (scrubber waters) to marine waters. Furthermore, scrubber waters contain high concentrations of metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and alkylated PAHs, potentially affecting the plankton in the receiving waters. Toxicity tests evidenced significant impairments in planktonic indicators after acute, early-life stage, and long-term exposures to scrubber water produced by a vessel operating with high sulphur fuel. Acute effects on bacterial bioluminescence (Aliivibrio fischeri), algal growth (Phaeodactylum tricornutum, Dunaliella tertiolecta), and copepod survival (Acartia tonsa) were evident at 10 % and 20 % scrubber water, while larval development in mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis) showed a 50 % reduction at ∼5 % scrubber water. Conversely, larval development and reproductive success of A. tonsa were severely affected at scrubber water concentrations ≤1.1 %, indicating the risk of severe impacts on copepod populations which in turn may result in impairment of the whole food web.
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