Laboratory simulation of chemical evaporation from dredge-produced sediment slurries

Environmental Engineering Science

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 730-740

  Thibodeaux, Louis J ^a   Huls, Hubert ^b   Ravikrishna, Raghunathan ^a   Valsaraj, Kalliat T ^a   Costello, Mike ^b   Reible, Danny D ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Service Engineering Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Dredge remediation releases; Flux to air measurements; Solid water partitioning; Transport to air; Water to air partitioning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONTAMINATION; DESORPTION; DREDGING; EVAPORATION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; SEDIMENTS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

CHEMICAL EVAPORATION; FIELD-CONTAMINATED SEDIMENTS; LABORATORY-SCALE APPARATUS; WATER SOLUTIONS;

SLURRIES;

ACENAPHTHENE DERIVATIVE; BENZENE; ETHYLBENZENE; FLUORENE; META,PARA XYLENE; METHYL NAPHTHALENE; NAPHTHALENE; ORTHO XYLENE; PETROLEUM DERIVATIVE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; STYRENE; TOLUENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; DATA ANALYSIS; DESORPTION; EVAPORATION; EXTRACTION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; SEDIMENT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SIMULATION; SOLUBILITY; TURBULENT FLOW; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 8644276346     PISSN: 10928758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ees.2004.21.730     Document Type: Article

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