Modeling PCB mass transfer and bioaccumulation in a freshwater oligochaete before and after amendment of sediment with activated carbon

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1115-1121

  Sun, Xueli ^a   Werner, David ^b   Ghosh, Upal ^a  

^a University of Marylandw Baltimore County   (United States)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEFORE AND AFTER; BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES; BENTHIC ORGANISMS; BIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; DEPURATION; DERMAL ABSORPTIONS; DERMAL UPTAKES; DESORPTION RATES; EQUILIBRIUM PARTITIONING; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; FRESHWATER OLIGOCHAETES; FRESHWATER SEDIMENTS; GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; HYDROPHOBIC ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; INGESTION RATES; INTRAPARTICLE; LUMBRICULUS VARIEGATUS; MASS TRANSFER MODELS; PCB CONCENTRATIONS; PCB CONGENERS;

ADSORPTION; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; CHARCOAL; DESORPTION; MASS TRANSFER; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; PRINTED CIRCUITS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ACTIVATED CARBON;

ACTIVATED CARBON; FRESH WATER; ORGANIC COMPOUND; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

ACTIVATED CARBON; AMENITY; ANNELID; BIOACCUMULATION; FRESHWATER; MASS TRANSFER; MODELING; PCB;

ADSORPTION; ANNELID WORM; ARTICLE; BENTHOS; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOAVAILABILITY; DESORPTION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOCHEMISTRY; INGESTION; INVERTEBRATE; LABORATORY TEST; LUMBRICULUS VARIEGATUS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; SEDIMENT; SKIN ABSORPTION;

ABSORPTION; ANIMALS; CHARCOAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DERMIS; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OLIGOCHAETA; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WATER;

INVERTEBRATA; LUMBRICULUS VARIEGATUS;

EID: 64349097832     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es801901q     Document Type: Article

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