Measurement of freely dissolved PAH concentrations in sediment beds using passive sampling with low-density polyethylene strips

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1430-1436

  Fernandez, Loretta A ^a   Macfarlane, John K ^a   Tcaciuc, Alexandra P ^a   Gschwend, Philip M ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR BRIDGES; CHRYSENE; EQUILIBRIUM PARTITIONING; EXPOSURE TIME; FLUORANTHENE; HYDROPHOBIC ORGANIC CHEMICALS; LOW-DENSITY POLYETHYLENES; PASSIVE SAMPLERS; PASSIVE SAMPLINGS; PERFORMANCE REFERENCE COMPOUNDS; PORE WATERS; POREWATER CONCENTRATIONS; SEDIMENT BEDS; SEDIMENT CORES;

ANTHRACENE; BUBBLES (IN FLUIDS); CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DISSOLUTION; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; SAMPLING; THERMOPLASTICS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

BENZ[A]ANTHRACENE DERIVATIVE; CHRYSENE; FLUORANTHENE; PHENANTHRENE; POLYETHYLENE; PYRENE;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; ETHYLENE; EXTRACTION METHOD; HYDROPHOBICITY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PAH; POREWATER; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

ARTICLE; HYDROPHOBICITY; SEDIMENT; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SAMPLING;

AIR; CARBON; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; KINETICS; MASSACHUSETTS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; POLYETHYLENE; POROSITY; REAGENT STRIPS; SOLUBILITY; WATER;

EID: 63049091043     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es802288w     Document Type: Article

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