Influential role of black carbon in the soil-air partitioning of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in the Indus River Basin, Pakistan

Chemosphere

Volumn 134, Issue , 2015, Pages 172-180

  Ali, Usman ^a   Syed, Jabir Hussain ^b   Mahmood, Adeel ^c   Li, Jun ^b   Zhang, Gan ^b   Jones, Kevin C ^d   Malik, Riffat Naseem ^a  

^a QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^c COMSATS Institute of Information Technology ^*  (Pakistan)

^d LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Black carbon air partition coefficient; Indus River Basin; Octanol air partition coefficient; PCBs; Soil air partition model

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; CARBON; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; RIVERS; SOILS; WATERSHEDS;

INDUS RIVER BASIN; OCTANOL AIR-PARTITION; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PARTITION MODEL; PCB CONGENERS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL (PCBS); PREDICTED MODELS; SAMPLING SITE;

POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS;

BLACK CARBON; OCTANOL; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; AIR POLLUTANT; CARBON; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT; SOOT;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BLACK CARBON; DOMINANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; PCB; RETENTION; RIVER BASIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADSORPTION; AIR ANALYSIS; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; PAKISTAN; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PREDICTION; SOIL AIR PARTITION MODEL; SOIL ANALYSIS; SURFACE SOIL; AIR; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; QUALITY CONTROL; RIVER; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANT; SOOT;

INDUS RIVER; PAKISTAN;

ADSORPTION; AIR; AIR POLLUTANTS; ATMOSPHERE; CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GEOGRAPHY; OCTANOLS; PAKISTAN; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; QUALITY CONTROL; RIVERS; SOIL; SOIL POLLUTANTS; SOOT;

EID: 84930581280     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: 18791298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2015.03.020     Document Type: Article

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