Role of weathered coal tar pitch in the partitioning of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in manufactured gas plant site sediments

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 5681-5687

  Khalil, Muhammad F ^a   Ghosh, Upal ^a   Kreitinger, Joseph P ^b  

^a University of Marylandw Baltimore County   (United States)

^b RETEC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANUFACTURED GAS PLANTS (MGP); PARTITION COEFFICIENTS; PARTITIONING MODELS;

COAL TAR; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; SEDIMENTS;

AIR POLLUTION;

CARBON; COAL TAR; COKE; ORGANIC MATTER; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

AIR POLLUTION; COAL TAR; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; SEDIMENTS;

BIOAVAILABILITY; BLACK CARBON; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; COAL TAR; PAH; POLLUTANT; SEDIMENT; SORPTION;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DENSITY; MODEL; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; SEDIMENT; STANDARD; WEATHERING; WOOD;

COAL TAR; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; RIVERS; SILICON DIOXIDE; WOOD;

EID: 33748799454     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0607032     Document Type: Article

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