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
Bioaccumulation of PCBs from microplastics in Norway lobster (Nephrops norvegicus): An experimental study
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that after 3 weeks of exposure the ingestion of plastic MS themselves did not affect the nutritional state of wild Nephrops, and the presence of chemicals adsorbed to ingested microplastics did not lead to significant bioaccumulation of the chemicals in the exposed organisms.
Journal ArticleDOI
The road to nowhere: equilibrium partition coefficients for nanoparticles
Antonia Praetorius,Nathalie Tufenkji,Kai-Uwe Goss,Martin Scheringer,Frank von der Kammer,Menachem Elimelech +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the applicability of equilibrium partition coefficients, such as the octanol-water partition coefficient (Kow) or the soil-water distribution coefficient (kd), in the context of engineered nanoparticles (ENPs) fate assessment is discussed.
Journal ArticleDOI
Particle growth by acid-catalyzed heterogeneous reactions of organic carbonyls on preexisting aerosols.
TL;DR: Results strongly suggest that indigenous sulfuric acid associated with the combustion of fossil fuels (e.g., diesel soot) can initiate acid-catalyzed heterogeneous reactions of SOAs on the particle phase.
Journal ArticleDOI
Evaluation of a model for the removal of pharmaceuticals, personal care products, and hormones from wastewater.
Benjamin D. Blair,Jordan Crago,Curtis J. Hedman,Ronan J.F. Treguer,Christopher Magruder,L. Scott Royer,Rebecca D. Klaper +6 more
TL;DR: Under a certain set of operating conditions, two chemical characteristics - the expected hydrophobic interaction and the modeled biological degradation from BIOWIN4 - were found to predict the removal of highly degradable and recalcitrant PPCPs from a wastewater secondary treatment process.
Journal ArticleDOI
Transformations of dissolved organic matter induced by UV photolysis, Hydroxyl radicals, chlorine radicals, and sulfate radicals in aqueous-phase UV-Based advanced oxidation processes.
TL;DR: This study mechanistically and systematically elucidate the molecular-level DOM transformation pathways induced by hydroxyl, chlorine, and sulfate radicals in UV-AOPs and finds that there is a distinct transformation in the aliphatic components of DOM due to HO• in UV/H2O2 and UV/free chlorine.