Advection dominated transport of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in amended sediment caps

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 5032-5039

  Gidley, Philip T ^a   Kwon, Seokjoon ^a   Yakirevich, Alexander ^b   Magar, Victor S ^c   Ghosh, Upal ^a  

^a University of Marylandw Baltimore County   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c ENVIRON INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CAPPING; ADVECTION DOMINATED TRANSPORT; AQUATIC HABITATS; BACKGROUND LEVEL; CAPPING MATERIALS; COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; CONTAMINATED SEDIMENT; DRY WEIGHT; GROUNDWATER SEEPAGE; HYDROPHOBIC CONTAMINANTS; LABORATORY COLUMNS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PORE VOLUMES OF FLOWS; PORE WATERS; SEDIMENT CAP; SEDIMENT REMEDIATION; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SORPTION CAPACITIES; SUPERFUND SITES;

ACTIVATED CARBON; EXPERIMENTS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; IMPURITIES; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SORPTION;

SEDIMENTS;

ACTIVATED CARBON; CREOSOTE; GROUND WATER; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ADVECTION; BATHYMETRIC SURVEY; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; PAH; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POREWATER; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SEEPAGE; SORPTION; VOLUME;

ADVECTION; ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DRY WEIGHT; SAND; SEDIMENT; URBAN AREA; VOLUMETRY; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER FLOW;

CHARCOAL; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; WATER POLLUTION, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84860430593     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es202910c     Document Type: Article

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