Oxygen transport from the atmosphere to soil gas beneath a slab-on-grade foundation overlying petroleum-impacted soil

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 5534-5540

  Lundegard, Paul D ^a   Johnson, Paul C ^b   Dahlen, Paul ^b  

^a Arizona State University ^*  (United States)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FOSSIL FUELS; NONMETALS; OXYGEN; PETROLEUM REFINERIES; PETROLEUM TRANSPORTATION; SOILS;

FIELD STUDIES; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; RELATIVE POSITIONING; SLAB-ON-GRADE FOUNDATION; SOIL GASES; VAPOR CONCENTRATIONS; VAPOR INTRUSION;

VAPORS;

HYDROCARBON; METHANE; NITROGEN; PETROLEUM DERIVATIVE; RAIN;

BIODEGRADATION; BUILDING; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; FOUNDATION; METHANOGENESIS; OXYGEN; PETROLEUM; SENSOR; SOIL GAS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ADVECTION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GAS; METHANOGENESIS; OXYGEN DIFFUSION; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTION; SPATIAL SOIL VARIABILITY; VAPOR; WEATHER; WIND;

AIR MOVEMENTS; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ATMOSPHERE; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; DIFFUSION; GASES; HOUSING; HYDROCARBONS; METHANE; NITROGEN; OXYGEN; PETROLEUM; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TIME FACTORS; VOLATILIZATION; WIND;

EID: 48749103945     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es070607g     Document Type: Article

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