Vapor intrusion screening model for the evaluation of risk-based vertical exclusion distances at petroleum contaminated sites

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 13263-13272

  Verginelli, Iason ^a   Baciocchi, Renato ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBONS; METHANE; MICROBIOLOGY; PETROLEUM CHEMISTRY; RISKS; SOURCE SEPARATION;

3-D NUMERICAL MODELING; AEROBIC BIODEGRADATION; METHANE CONCENTRATIONS; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBONS; PETROLEUM-CONTAMINATED SITES; SEPARATION DISTANCES; SOIL GAS CONCENTRATION; VAPOR INTRUSION MODELS;

BIODEGRADATION;

HYDROCARBON; PETROLEUM; PETROLEUM DERIVATIVE; AIR POLLUTANT; BENZENE;

BIODEGRADATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONTAMINATED LAND; METHANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OXIC CONDITIONS; PETROLEUM; PREDICTION; RISK FACTOR; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VAPOR PRESSURE;

AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; BUILDING; CARBON SOURCE; CONTAMINATION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL MICROFLORA; SOIL RESPIRATION; VAPOR; VOLATILIZATION; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; BENZENE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PETROLEUM; RISK ASSESSMENT; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 84924587785     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es503723g     Document Type: Article

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