Transport and Fate of Chemicals in the Environment Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gulliver, John S. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Physical chemistry.; Geochemistry.; Geobiology.; Environmental chemistry.; Ecotoxicology.; Waste management.; Physical Chemistry.; Environmental Chemistry.; Waste Management/Waste Technology.; Biogeosciences.

What happens when a chemical is released into the environment? It diffuses, disperses, adsorbs, reacts, and/or changes state.  To predict and analyze this process, the mathematics of diffusion is applied to lakes, rivers, groundwater, the atmosphere, the oceans, and transport between these media.  A...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Transport and Fate of Chemicals in the Environment, Introduction
• 2. Chemicals in the Environment, Diffusive Transport
• 3. Toxic Organic Chemicals
• 4. Transport in the Environment
• 5. Chemicals in the Environment, Turbulent Transport
• 6. Chemicals in the Environment, Dispersive Transport
• 7.  Transport with Jets and Plumes of Chemicals in the Environment
• 8. Atmosphere-Water Exchange
• 9. Sediment-Water Interfaces, Chemical Flux at
• 10. River Fate and Transport
• 11. Lake and Reservoir Fate and Transport of Chemicals
• 12. Oceanic Fate and Transport of Chemicals
• 13. Subsurface Fate and Transport of Chemicals
• Index.