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Modeling the Reactive Transport of Isotopologues of Environmental Pollutants

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Handbook of Isotopologue Biogeochemistry

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Reactive transport modeling of organic pollutants is important for decision-making in a large number of environmental health problems such as protection of water sources or drinking water wells, or prevention of vapor intrusion into buildings. The rise of compound-specific and position-specific isotope analysis in environmental pollutants has led to the development of reactive transport models for isotopologues (same molecules with different isotopic substitution) which reinforce very much the classical concentration-based transport models. This chapter reviews the history of isotopologue transport models in the environment and presents the current state of the art of modeling approaches. Single-element approaches are presented first, followed by multi-elemental approaches. The special case of stable chlorine isotopes is emphasized thereafter because of special requirements for modeling the chlorine isotopes 37Cl and 35Cl. The chapter ends with a summary and comparison of all approaches and a discussion of future needs for developments.

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    Alexis Gilbert

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Höhener, P. (2023). Modeling the Reactive Transport of Isotopologues of Environmental Pollutants. In: Yoshida, N., Gilbert, A., Foriel, J. (eds) Handbook of Isotopologue Biogeochemistry. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7048-8_42-1

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