Modeling the uptake of semivolatile organic compounds by passive air samplers: Importance of mass transfer processes within the porous sampling media

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 9563-9570

  Zhang, Xianming ^a   Wania, Frank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR SAMPLING; BULK PHASIS; CHEMICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; CHEMICAL EXCHANGE; CHEMICAL SORPTION; GASPHASE; HIGH MOBILITY; IN-FIELD; INTERFACIAL FILM; KNOWLEDGE GAPS; LOW MASS; MACROPORES; MASS TRANSFER PROCESS; PASSIVE AIR SAMPLER; PASSIVE SAMPLING; POLYURETHANE FOAM; SEMIVOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; TARGET MOLECULE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WIND SPEED;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS; CHEMICALS; DIFFUSION; GASES; SORPTION;

IMPORTANCE SAMPLING;

SEMIVOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR SAMPLING; BOUNDARY LAYER; CALIBRATION; DIFFUSION; FILM; MASS TRANSFER; MODEL VALIDATION; POROUS MEDIUM; RESIN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SORPTION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; WIND VELOCITY;

AIR SAMPLER; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; DISSOLUTION; EVAPORATION; PASSIVE SAMPLING MEDIA; TEMPERATURE; VELOCITY;

ADSORPTION; AIR POLLUTANTS; DIFFUSION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; POLYSTYRENES; POLYURETHANES; POROSITY; RESINS, SYNTHETIC; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84865768817     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es302334r     Document Type: Article

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