Volatile organic compounds fates

Wakeham SG, Davis AC, Karas JL. 1983. Microcosm experiments to determine the fate and persistence of volatile organic compounds in coastal seawater. Environmental Science and Technology 17 611-617. 

Mackay, D., Shiu, W.Y. (1990) Physical-chemical properties and fate of volatile organic compounds an application of the fugacity approach. In Significance and Treatment of Volatile Organic Compounds in Water Supplies. Ram, N.M., Christman, R.F., Cantor, K.P., Eds., pp. 183-203, Lewis Publishers, Chelsea, Michigan. 

Kuster M, Diaz-Cruz S, Rosell M et al (2010) Fate of selected pesticides, estrogens, progestagens and volatile organic compounds during artificial aquifer recharge using surface waters. Chemosphere 79 880-886... 

Bidleman, T. F., and W. T. Foreman, "Vapor-Particle Partitioning of Semi-Volatile Organic Compounds, in Sources and Fates of... 

Mackay, D., W. Y. Shiu, and K. C. Ma, Eds., Illustrated Handbook of Physical-Chemical Properties and Environmental Fate for Organic Chemicals, Vol. Ill Volatile Organic Compounds, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 1993. 

Gas-phase, solution-phase, and heterogeneous reactions all play important roles in atmospheric chemistry. The mean atmospheric composition is given in Table 1. N2, O2, and Ar comprise 99.9% of the atmosphere and, for all practical purposes, the relative proportion of these gases is constant in the lower 100 km of the atmosphere. We are concerned here with the fate of pollutants such as CO, volatile organic compounds, halocarbons, sulfur compounds, and nitrogen oxides, which are present in trace amounts and whose concentrations vary significantly both spatially and temporally. 

Rathbun R. E. (1998) Transport, behavior, and fate of volatile organic compounds in streams. US Geological Survey Professional Paper 1589, 151pp. 

Recent research has targeted contaminated water and plant interactions. In recent work, partitioning coefficients for contaminants and plant species used in phytoremediation have been determined in the hope of better understanding the fate of compounds, particularly VOCs. Volatile organic compounds were shown to partition between plant biomass, internal... 

Trichloroethane is a volatile organic compound with moderate water solubility (1,500 mg/L at 25 °C) (Horvath 1982). The experimental Henry s law constants measured for this compound range from 6.3x10 to 17.2x10 atm m /mol at 25 °C (Chiou et al. 1980 Gossett 1987 Tse et al. 1992) this suggests that volatilization from water should be the dominant fate process. Volatilization of... 

Wakeham SG. Goodwin JT, Davis AC. 1983a. Distributions and fate of volatile organic compounds in Narragansett Bay. Rl. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 40 304-321. 

A general fate model has been developed by Namkung and Rittmaim (1987), to describe the volatilization, adsorption and biodegradation of volatile organic compounds in municipal sewage treatment plants (10). 

Aldehydes are emitted directly into the atmosphere from a variety of natural and anthropogenic sources and are also formed in situ from the atmospheric degradation of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The atmospheric fate of aldehydes is controlled by photolysis and reaction with hydroxyl (OH) or nitrate (NO3) radicals and, in the case of unsaturated compounds, reaction with ozone (Atkinson, 1994). The photolysis of aldehydes is of particular importance because it is a source of free radicals in the troposphere, and thus may significantly influence the oxidizing capacity of the lower atmosphere (Finlayson-Pitts and Pitts, 1986). 

Henderson KL, Belden JB, Coats JR (2007) Mass balance of metolachlor in a grassed phytoremediation system. Environ Sci Technol 41(ll) 4084-4089 Orchard BJ, Doucette WJ, Chard JK, Bugbee B (2000) A novel laboratory system for determining fate of volatile organic compounds in planted systems. Environ Toxicol Chem 19(4) 888-894... 

Thrner et al. [120] discuss the use of thermal desorption GC-IRMS to determine the stable carbon isotopic composition of low molecular weight volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in airborne samples. The authors demonstrate that the technique utilized did not result in significant isotopic fractionation for the compounds analyzed and hence was a viable technique for tracking their source and their fate in the environment. 

Stocker, I., et al.. Modeling the effect of snow and ice on the global environmental fate and long-range transport potential of semi-volatile organic compounds. Environmental Science <6 Technology, 2007.41(17) 6192-6198. 

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