Overview
- Provides detailed background on environmental chemistry, diffusion, and transport
- Examines transport and fate in single media as well as inter-media transfer of chemicals
- Covers transport and fate in rivers, lakes, the oceans, and groundwater
- Demonstrates key applications of transport and fate analyses within the ecosphere
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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What happens when a chemical is released into the environment? It diffuses, disperses, adsorbs, reacts, and/or changes state. To predict and analyze this process, the mathematics of diffusion is applied to lakes, rivers, groundwater, the atmosphere, the oceans, and transport between these media. A sustainable world requires a deep understanding of the transport of chemicals through the environment and how to address and harness this process. This volume presents a succinct and in-depth introduction to this critical topic. Featuring authoritative, peer-reviewed articles from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology, Transport and Fate of Chemicals in the Environment represents an essential one-stop reference for an audience of researchers, undergraduate and graduate students, and industry professionals.
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Keywords
- Atmosphere-water Exchange
- Chemicals in the Ocean
- Diffusive Transport
- Dispersive Transport
- Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology
- Jets of Chemicals
- Lake and Resevoir Transport and Fate of Chemicals
- Plumes of Chemicals
- River Fate and Transport
- Sediment-water Interfaces
- Subsurface Chemicals Fate and Transport
- Toxic Organic Chemicals
- Transport and Fate Chemicals in the Environment
- Turbulent Transport
Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transport and Fate of Chemicals in the Environment
Book Subtitle: Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology
Editors: John S. Gulliver
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5731-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-5730-5
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8613-9
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-5731-2
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 378
Topics: Physical Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Geochemistry, Waste Management/Waste Technology, Biogeosciences, Ecotoxicology