Direct measurement of VOC diffusivities in tree tissues: Impacts on tree-based phytoremediation and plant contamination

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1268-1275

  Baduru, Krishna K ^a   Trapp, Stefan ^a   Burken, Joel G ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; DIFFUSION; FORESTRY; GROUNDWATER; IMPURITIES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; VAPORIZATION; VEGETATION;

PHYTOREMEDIATION; VAPOR-PHASE TRANSPORT;

VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; BENZENE; LIGNIN; TERT BUTYL METHYL ETHER; TETRACHLOROETHANE; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TOLUENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; WATER;

CONTAMINATION; DIFFUSION; FORESTRY; GROUNDWATER; IMPURITIES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; VAPORIZATION; VEGETATION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFUSIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIGNIN; MASS TRANSFER; MODEL VALIDATION; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PHYTOREMEDIATION; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; TREE; VADOSE ZONE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; VOLATILIZATION; WOOD; XYLEM;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CONTAMINATION; DIFFUSION; FRUIT; GAS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PHYTOREMEDIATION; PLANT; TREE; TREE TRUNK; VOLATILIZATION; XYLEM;

DIFFUSION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; TREES;

DIFFUSION; FORESTRY; IMPURITIES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PLANTS; POLLUTION; VAPORIZATION;

EID: 39649106888     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es071552l     Document Type: Article

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