Occurrence and Removal Characteristics of Phthalate Esters from Typical Water Sources in Northeast China

Table 3

Comparison of the concentrations of DEHP and DBP in the water bodies (ng/L).

Location	DEHP			DBP			Reference
	Range	Median	Mean	Range	Median	Mean
Surface water, Germany	330–97800	2270	—	120–8800	500	—	[14]
Surface water, the Netherlands	nd–5000	320	—	66–3100	250	—	[15]
Seine River estuary, France	160–314	—	—	67–319	—	—	[16]
Tama River, Japan	13–3600	—	—	8–540	—	—	[17]
Velino River, Italy	nd–6400	—	—	nd–44300	—	—	[2]
Surface water, Taiwan	nd–18500	—	9300	1000–13500	—	4900	[18]
Surface water, Jiangsu, China	556–15670.7	—	—	16–5857.5	—	—	[19]
Yangtze River, mainstream, China	3900–54730	—	—	nd–35650	—	—	[20]
Middle and lower Yellow River, China	347–31800	—	—	nd–26000	—	—	[21]
Second Songhua River, China	nd–1752650	370020	—	nd–5616800	—	717240	[22]
Urban lakes, Guangzhou, China	87–630	170	240	940–3600	1990	2030	[11]
Xiangjiang River, China	620–15230	—	—	—	—	—	[23]
This study	128.9–6570.9	671.0	1774.1	52.5–4498.2	110.3	801.4