Sorption, influence

Sorption/desorption is the key property for estimating the mobility of organic pollutants in solid phases. There is a real need to predict such mobility at different aqueous-solid phase interfaces. Solid phase sorption influences the extent of pollutant volatilization from the solid phase surface, its lateral or vertical transport, and biotic or abiotic processes (e.g., biodegradation, bioavailability, hydrolysis, and photolysis). For instance, transport through a soil phase includes several processes such as bulk flow, dispersive flow, diffusion through macropores, and molecular diffusion. The transport rate of an organic pollutant depends mainly on the partitioning between the vapor, liquid, and solid phase of an aqueous-solid phase system. 

Biodegradation, hydrolysis, and sorption influence the environmental fate of LAS, AS, and AES. Primary degradation of surfactants is important because this process usually results in loss of surfactancy and reduced toxicity (5, 6). Complete mineralization ensures that persistent intermediates will not be formed and that biodegradation will be an effective mass-removal mechanism in the environment. Sorption and association of surfactants with particles or dissolved organic substances are processes that decrease bioavailability and can be correlated with decreased surfactant toxicity (7). 

Acid-base chemistry on a surface has the effect of changing the form of the surface bound species, instead of directly generating new volatile compounds. This can influence the overall sorptive capacity of indoor surfaces or even catalyze transformative reactions. Compound sorption influences the timing and intensity of exposure by temporarily storing these species on indoor surfaces (Tichenor et al., 1991 Won et al., 2001). For example, if a compound adsorbs strongly during an emission event, the peak concentration during the event will be lower than anticipated. However, desorption of those compounds will cause occupants to be exposed over an extended time period. 

How can sorption influence availability or amount of toxic organic in solution What sediment properties influence adsorption ... 

Volatilization. The susceptibility of a herbicide to loss through volatilization has received much attention, due in part to the realization that herbicides in the vapor phase may be transported large distances from the point of application. Volatilization losses can be as high as 80—90% of the total applied herbicide within several days of application. The processes that control the amount of herbicide volatilized are the evaporation of the herbicide from the solution or soHd phase into the air, and dispersal and dilution of the resulting vapor into the atmosphere (250). These processes are influenced by many factors including herbicide application rate, wind velocity, temperature, soil moisture content, and the compound s sorption to soil organic and mineral surfaces. Properties of the herbicide that influence volatility include vapor pressure, water solubility, and chemical stmcture (251). 

Polymer-Fluid Equilibria and the Glass Transition Most polymer systems fall in the Class HI or Class V phase diagrams, and the same system can often change from one class into the other as the polymer s molecular weight changes. Most polymers are insoluble in CO9 below 100°C, yet CO9 can be quite sohible in the polymer. For example, the sorption of CO9 into silicone rubber is highly dependent upon temperature and pressure, since these properties have a large influence on the density and activity of CO9. 

Water molecules combine the tendency to cluster, craze and plasticize the epoxy matrices with the characteristic of easily diffusion in the polymer1 10). The morphology of the thermoset may be adversaly influenced by the presence of the sorbed moisture. The diffusion of the water in glassy polymers able to link the penetrant molecules is, therefore, characterized by various mechanisms of sorption which may be isolated giving useful information on the polymer fine structure. 

Research into the aquatic chemistry of plutonium has produced information showing how this radioelement is mobilized and transported in the environment. Field studies revealed that the sorption of plutonium onto sediments is an equilibrium process which influences the concentration in natural waters. This equilibrium process is modified by the oxidation state of the soluble plutonium and by the presence of dissolved organic carbon (DOC). Higher concentrations of fallout plutonium in natural waters are associated with higher DOC. Laboratory experiments confirm the correlation. In waters low in DOC oxidized plutonium, Pu(V), is the dominant oxidation state while reduced plutonium, Pu(III+IV), is more prevalent where high concentrations of DOC exist. Laboratory and field experiments have provided some information on the possible chemical processes which lead to changes in the oxidation state of plutonium and to its complexation by natural ligands. 

Note The amino acid residues of lysine (K) and arginine (R) which may be responsible for the binding of POs to polysaccharides are in bold. According to Demand et al. (2002), the mutual substitution of these amino acids has no influence on the sorption properties of the ATg08770 PO of Arabidopsis with pectins, and the deletion of the fragment results in the loss of this function. 

The degree of influence of the acetylation of polysaccharides on the sorption of peroxidases... 

Garbarini DR, Lion LW. 1986. Influence of the nature of soil organics on the sorption of toluene and trichloroethylene. Environmental Science and Technology 20 1263-1269. 

Rates of hydrolysis may be influenced by the presence of dissolved organic carbon, or organic components of soil and sediment. The magnitude of the effect is determined by the structure of the compound and by the kinetics of its association with these components. For example, whereas the neutral hydrolysis of chlorpyrifos was unaffected by sorption to sediments, the rate of alkaline hydrolysis was considerably slower (Macalady and Wolf 1985) humic acid also reduced the rate of alkaline hydrolysis of 1-octyl 2,4-dichlo-rophenoxyacetate (Perdue and Wolfe 1982). Conversely, sediment sorption had no effect on the neutral hydrolysis of 4-chlorostilbene oxide, although the rate below pH 5 where acid hydrolysis dominates was reduced (Metwally and Wolfe 1990). 

The influence of sorption/desorption on biodegradation, which has been discussed in a wider context in Chapter 4. 

Figure 7. U(VI) sorption onto muscovite (7a, Schmeide et al. 2000) and hematite (7b, Lenhart and Honeyman 1999) in the absence (U) and in the presence of humic acid (U+HA). 7a [U02 ] = 1 pmol/L, [HA] = 5 mg/L, muscovite content of about 1.2g/L. Complexation of U with HA in solution and onto mineral surface may influence U sorption. For instance, U sorption onto muscovite is enhanced in presence of HA at low pH. 7b [U] = 1 jamol/L, [HA] = 10 mg/L. Hematite content in solution = 0.9 and 9g/L. Uptake of U increases with increasing hematite content. In presence of hematite, an increase of U sorption onto hematite is observed at low pH, especially at low hematite content.

Influence of U colloidal transport in organic-poor surface waters has been far less studied. Riotte et al. (2003) reported U losses from 0 to 70% during ultrafiltration experiments for surface waters of Mount Cameroon without nearly any DOC. Even in the low concentration waters, U can be significantly fractionated from other soluble elements by the occurrence of a colloidal phase, probably inorganic in origin. However, such fractionations are not systematic because of the occurrence of various colloidal phases, characterised by different physical and chemical properties, and hence different sorption and/or complexation capacities (Section 2.1). 

The crystalline structure of adsorbents directly influences their gas sensitivity. Depending on the type of the problem to be addressed ad-sorption-sensitive semiconductors are monocrystals or monocrystal films with a predetermined crystallographic orientation of of>erational surface vacuum baked polycrystalline films, which, from their electrical standpoint, are similar to monocrystals but differ from the latter by ulti-... 

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