Distribution of organic pollutant

Cautreels W, VanCauwenberghe K. 1978. Experiments on the distribution of organic pollutants between airborne particulate matter and the corresponding gas phase. Atmos Environ 12 1133-1141. 

Cautreels, W., and K. Van Cauwenberghe, Experiments on the Distribution of Organic Pollutants between Airborne Particulate Matter and the Corresponding Gas Phase, Atmos. Environ., 12, 1133-1141 (1978). 

Quantitative distributions of organic pollutants in different phases largely depend on their physical properties the solubility constants in water (K, ) and soil (Koc) and Henry s constant. Figure 2.4 illustrates their distribution in these phases. 

Among these factors, organic content determines the soil distribution coefficient and is an important parameter that quantifies the distribution of organic pollutants in soil. The soil distribution coefficient (K. ) is the ratio between the mass of contaminant sorbed by soil (mg/g) to the mass of contaminant in the aqueous phase (mg/mL), or ... 

Effects of Surfactant Sorption on the Equilibrium Distribution of Organic Pollutants in Contaminated Subsurface Environments... 

Figure 2. Distribution of organic pollutant within sediment in the presence of an infaunal organism. The s represent uncertain partitioning between phases that would require direct contact.

The multivariate method MCR-ALS has been used to analyse data in order to identify the main sources of organic pollution affecting the Ebro River delta. Subsequently, an interpolation procedure has been also applied to obtain distribution maps from the punctual resolved data (corresponding to the score values obtained from MCR-ALS). 

The presence of colloids in natural aqueous systems acts to influence the distribution and behavior of organic pollutants [24,88 - 94]. Colloids are formed by some physical and chemical processes. These physical and chemical processes... 

DHS can significantly affect the environmental behavior of hydrophobic organic compounds and lower the possibility of direct contact of such organic compounds with various solid phases. The rate of chemical degradation, photolysis, volatilization, transfer to sediments/soils, and biological uptake may be different for the fraction of organic pollutant that is bound to DHS. If this is the case, the distribution and total mass of a pollutant in an ecosystem depends, in part, on the extent of humic matter-hydrophobic binding. 

This distribution constant may also be expressed as amount of organic pollutant sorbed per unit mass of solids organic carbon (Koc), the relation between the two being defined by the following ... 

Rice D, Seltenrich C, Spies R, et al. 1993. Seasonal and annual distribution of organic contaminants in marine sediments from elkhorn slough moss landing harbor and nearshore monterey bay California. Environmental Pollution 82(1) 79-91. 

Paterson, S. and D. Mackay, 1989. Modeling the Uptake and Distribution of Organic Chemicals in Plants. In D.T. Allen, Y. Cohen, and I.R. Kaplan, Eds., Intermedia Pollutant Transport, Plenum Publishing Corporation, 269-282. 

Energy efficiency Lower temperature requirements than their nonelectrochem-ical counterparts, for example, anodic destruction of organic pollutants instead of thermal incineration power losses caused by inhomogeneous current distribution, voltage drop, and side reactions being minimized by optimization of electrode structure and cell design. 

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