Reactivity and Transport of Heavy Metals in Soils - Hardcover

Selim, H. Magdi; Amacher, Michael C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0873714733 ISBN 13: 9780873714730

Publisher: CRC Press, 1996

Synopsis

The fate of heavy metal particles in the environment is important because they tend to be reactive, mobile, and highly toxic. Reactivity and Transport of Heavy Metals in Soils examines the sometimes complex interactions that occur between metals and the soil they occupy. It discusses basic kinetic concepts and covers the predictability and consequences of metal-soil interactions. This practical guide presents and explains heavy metal issues crucial to hazardous waste site cleanup, including:

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H. Magdi Selim, H. Magdi Selim; Michael C. Amacher;

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The fate of heavy metals in the soil environment is important because they tend to be reactive, mobile, and highly toxic. Reactivity and Transport of Heavy Metals in Soils examines the sometimes complex interactions that occur between metals and the soil they occupy. This practical guide presents and explains heavy metal issues crucial to hazardous waste site cleanup, including the use and limitation of equilibrium models for describing metal transport in soils; laboratory methods of obtaining kinetic data, data analysis, and model evaluation and validation; retention reactions in soils, with emphasis on commonly observed behavior of heavy metals; second-order two-site modeling approaches with examples of Cr(VI) transport in soils; physical nonequilibrium approaches based on multi-region (mobile-immobile) concepts; multicomponent approaches focusing on competitive ion exchange and specific sorption mechanisms during transport.

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0873714733
• ISBN 13: 9780873714730
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240