Mobility and Degradation of Organic Contaminants in Subsurface Environments

by Warren J. Lyman

This book identifies the most important "rules" governing transport, partitioning, retention and transformation of leaked motor fuels in the underground environment. It examines micro-scale fate and transport processes as a means toward promoting a better understanding of larger scale movement of contaminants. Environmental scientists, engineers, consultants, and managers will find Mobility and Degradation of Organic Contaminants in Subsurface Environments to be a useful technical handbook. Less experienced users will appreciate its in-depth explanations of the fate and transport processes vital to effective remedial response. More experienced users will use the book as a source of information, data and equations to support quantitative assessments of pollutant fate and transport.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873718003
• ISBN13: 9780873718004
• Release Date: April 1992
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

Useful Reference Material

I've found the information in the book very useful when discussing mobilization and remobilization of organics and the transformation through biodegradation and chemical oxidation. The text is well written and easy to follow. I've also used this when discussing vadose zone characteristics Section 1: Contaminant Vapors as a Component of Soil Gas in the Unsaturated Zone, has been useful. The text also goes on to discribe dissolved phase and contaminants sorbed to colloidal particles and dissolved in the mobile pore water of the unsaturated zone.