Open AccessBook
Environmental organic chemistry
TLDR
An Introduction to Environmental Organic Chemicals is given in this article, where the authors present an overview of the main steps in the development of these processes, including the following: Sorption I: General Introduction and Sorption Processes Involving Organic Matter. Sorption II: Partitioning to Living Media - Bioaccumulation and Baseline Toxicity.Abstract:
Preface. Part I: Introduction. 1. General Topic and Overview. 2. An Introduction to Environmental Organic Chemicals. Part II: Equilibrium Partitioning Between Gaseous, Liquid, and Solid Phases. 3. Partitioning: Molecular Interactions and Thermodynamics. 4. Vapor Pressure. 5. Activity Coefficient and Solubility in Water. 6. Air-Organic Solvent and Air-Water Partitioning. 7. Organic Liquid-Water Partitioning. 8. Organic Acids and Bases: Acidity Constant and Partitioning Behavior. 9. Sorption I: General Introduction and Sorption Processes Involving Organic Matter. 10. Sorption II: Partitioning to Living Media - Bioaccumulation and Baseline Toxicity. 11. Sorption III: Sorption Processes Involving Inorganic Surfaces. Part III: Transformation Processes. 12. Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Transformation Reactions. 13. Chemical Transformations I: Hydrolysis and Reactions Involving Other Nucleophilic Species. 14. Chemical Transformations II: Redox Reactions. 15. Direct Photolysis. 16. Indirect Photolysis: Reactions with Photooxidants in Natural Waters and in the Atmosphere. 17. Biological Transformations. Part IV: Modeling Tools: Transport and Reaction. 18. Transport by Random Motion. 19. Transport Through Boundaries. 20. Air-Water Exchange. 21. Box Models. 22. Models in Space and Time. Part V: Environmental Systems and Case Studies. 23. Ponds, Lakes, and Oceans. 24. Rivers. 25. Groundwater. Appendix. Bibliography. Index (Subject Index, Compound Index, List of Illustrative Examples).read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Graphene Oxides in Water: Correlating Morphology and Surface Chemistry with Aggregation Behavior.
TL;DR: Observations support the deprotonation of carboxyl groups with low acid dissociation constants (pKa) as the main contributors to ζ-potentials and thus material aqueous stability.
Journal ArticleDOI
Review of the partitioning of chemicals into different plastics: Consequences for the risk assessment of marine plastic debris
TL;DR: Plastic water partition coefficients of various organic chemicals for seven plastic types: polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), high-density, low-density and ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (LDPE, HDPE, UHMWPE), polystyrene (PS), polypropylene (PP), and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) are collected.
Journal ArticleDOI
Microbial control of mineral–groundwater equilibria:Macroscale to microscale
TL;DR: In the contaminated unconfined glacio-fluvial aquifer near Bemidji, Minnesota, USA, carbonate chemistry is influenced primarily at the macro-scale as discussed by the authors.
Journal ArticleDOI
Diurnal fluctuations of dissolved nitrous oxide (N2O) concentrations and estimates of N2O emissions from a spring‐fed river: implications for IPCC methodology
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured N2O fluxes and dissolved NO3-N concentrations from a spring-fed temperate river to determine if diurnal cycles were occurring.
Journal ArticleDOI
Photolytic Transformation of Organic Pollutants on Soil SurfacesAn Experimental Approach
TL;DR: In this paper, a theoretical framework was proposed to understand combined effects of photolysis and diffusive transport processes, and an experimental setup was presented that allowed a separate quantification of actual photosynthesis and diffusion transport processes for two compounds p-nitroanisole and trifluralin.