Misinterpretations in the modeling of contaminant desorption from environmental solids when equilibrium conditions are not fully understood

Environmental Engineering Science

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 350-366

  Sabbah, Isam ^a,c   Ball, William P ^a   Young, Dirk F ^b   Bouwer, Edward J ^a  

^a The Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c Galilee Society   (Israel)

Author keywords

Desorption; Equilibrium; Hysteresis; Intraparticle diffusion; Organic contaminant; Sorption

Indexed keywords

DESORPTION; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; IMPURITIES; ISOTHERMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REMEDIATION; SEDIMENTS; SOLIDS;

CONTAMINANT DESORPTION; FIELD REMEDIATION; FINE-GRAINED MATERIALS; IMMOBILE WATER;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

ARTICLE; DESORPTION; DIFFUSION; ISOTHERM; KINETICS; MODEL; PREDICTION; SIMULATION;

EID: 17544362877     PISSN: 10928758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ees.2005.22.350     Document Type: Article

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