التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
A screening model for predicting the potential of soil colloids-enhanced leaching of hydrophobic organic contaminants to groundwater at contaminated sites. |
| المؤلفون: |
Duan, Lin1 (AUTHOR), Liu, Jiahuan1 (AUTHOR), Wang, Jing1 (AUTHOR), Jiang, Chuanjia1 (AUTHOR) jiangcj@nankai.edu.cn, Zhang, Tong1 (AUTHOR), Chen, Wei1 (AUTHOR) |
| المصدر: |
Journal of Environmental Sciences (Elsevier). Apr2025, Vol. 150, p309-317. 9p. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
*HAZARDOUS waste sites, HYDROPHOBIC organic pollutants, ORGANIC soil pollutants, WELLHEAD protection, POLYBROMINATED diphenyl ethers |
| مستخلص: |
• A screening tool named Colloids-Enhanced Transport (CET) model is developed. • The CET model is based on the enhanced transport of organic pollutants by soil colloids. • The CET model can predict the leaching potential of organic pollutants into groundwater. • The CET model can be used to derive soil quality standards or cleanup target levels. Modeling the fate and transport of organic pollutants at contaminated sites is critical for risk assessment and management practices, such as establishing realistic cleanup standards or remediation endpoints. Against the conventional wisdom that highly hydrophobic persistent organic pollutants (POPs) (e.g., polybrominated diphenyl ethers and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) in surface soils are essentially immobile, mounting evidence has demonstrated the potential of these contaminants leaching into the groundwater, due to enhanced transport by soil colloids. Here, we develop a Colloids-Enhanced Transport (CET) model, which can be used as a simple screening tool to predict the leaching potential of POPs into groundwater, as mediated by soil colloids. The CET model incorporates several processes, including the release of POPs-bearing colloids into the porewater, the vertical transport of colloids and associated POPs in the vadose zone, the mixing of POPs-containing soil leachate with groundwater, and the migration of POPs-bearing colloids in saturated zone. Thus, using parameters that can be easily obtained (e.g., annual rainfall, soil type, and common hydrogeological properties of the subsurface porous media), the CET model can estimate the concentrations of POPs in the saturated zone from the observed POPs concentrations in surface or shallow subsurface zones. The CET model can also be used to derive soil quality standards or cleanup endpoints by back-calculating soil concentrations based on groundwater protection limits. [Display omitted] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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