Estimating Emissions and Environmental Fate of Di-(2-ethylhexyl) Phthalate in Yangtze River Delta, China: Application of Inverse Modeling

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 2450-2458

  Zhan, Yu ^a,b   Sun, Jianteng ^a,b   Luo, Yuzhou ^c   Pan, Lili ^a,b   Deng, Xunfei ^d   Wei, Zi ^a   Zhu, Lizhong ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Organic Pollution Process and Control   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION AND MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTERS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL AREAS; SURFACE WATERS;

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DI-2-ETHYLHEXYL PHTHALATE; EMISSION INVENTORIES; GEO-REFERENCED MULTIMEDIA; MULTIMEDIA MODELING; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TIERED RISK ASSESSMENT; YANGTZE RIVER DELTA;

SOIL POLLUTION;

PHTHALIC ACID BIS(2 ETHYLHEXYL) ESTER; SURFACE WATER; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DELTA; EMISSION; EMISSION INVENTORY; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; INVERSE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHTHALATE; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION MONITORING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOIL ANALYSIS;

AIR; ARTICLE; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVER; RURAL AREA; SEDIMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CHINA; YANGTZE RIVER;

CHINA; DIETHYLHEXYL PHTHALATE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICULATE MATTER; RIVERS;

EID: 84959538844     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b05824     Document Type: Article

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