Overview

This advanced text package is designed to enable students, researchers and interested laymen to enter the field of environmental chemical partitioning. It contains modelling software (CemoS V 1:10), data sets and the CemoS handbook. Each chapter contains examples and exercises. The package should be of interest to students, scientists and engineers in the environmental sciences, chemistry, ecology, food science, hydrology and geology.

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Author:   Stefan Trapp ,  Michael Matthies ,  A. Weissbach ,  H. Boeddicker
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   illustrated edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.600kg
ISBN:  

9783540630968

ISBN 10:   3540630961
Pages:   301
Publication Date:   18 November 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Mixed media product
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

1: Textbook.- 1 Why Model Chemical Exposure?.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 Good Modeling Practice.- 2 Compartment Systems.- 2.1 Compartments.- 2.2 Mass Balance / Linear Differential Equations.- 2.3 Differential Equation Systems.- 2.4 Numerical Solution Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations.- 3 Transport and Transformation Processes.- 3.1 Diffusion.- 3.2 Dispersion.- 3.3 Advection (Convection).- 3.4 Combination of Diffusion, Dispersion and Advection.- 3.5 Reaction, Metabolism and Elimination.- 3.6 Combination of Dispersion, Advection and Elimination.- 3.7 Numerical Solution of the Dispersion-Advection Equation.- 4 Partitioning of Chemicals in the Environment.- 4.1 Division into Phases.- 4.2 The Partition Coefficient.- 4.3 Partition Coefficients for Dissociating Chemicals.- 4.4 Combination of Partition Coefficients.- 4.5 About Equilibrium.- 5 Multi-Media Models.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Partition Models for Multi-Compartment Systems.- 5.3 'Mackay Models'.- 5.4 What Do These Models Tell Us?.- 5.5 Regional Exposure Model.- 6 Contaminants in Surface Water.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 Analytical Steady-State Surface Water Model WATER.- 6.3 Dynamic Numerical TOXRIV Model.- 6.4 Two-Dimensional Approach.- 6.5 How to Obtain Hydrological Data.- 6.6 Contaminants in Waste Water Treatment Plants.- 7 Transport and Transformation of Compounds in Soil.- 7.1 Soil and Its Functions.- 7.2 Transport Processes of Substances in Soil.- 7.3 SOIL - Analytical Solutions for Vertical Transport in Soil.- 7.4 Comment.- 7.5 Discrete Cascade Model BUCKETS.- 8 Atmospheric Transport Models.- 8.1 Introduction.- 8.2 Model Approaches AIR and PLUME.- 9 Uptake by Plants.- 9.1 Significance of the Problem.- 9.2 Anatomical and Physiological Principles of Plants.- 9.3 PLANT Model.- 9.4 Limitations.- 10 Model for Food Chains.- 10.1 Problem Definition.- 10.2 Mathematical Formulation of the CHAIN Model.- 11 Data Estimation.- 11.1 Some Words on Data Quality and Data Estimation.- 11.2 Calculation of Molar Mass.- 11.3 Partition Coefficient n-Octanol to Water Kow.- 11.4 Partition Coefficient Organic Carbon to Water Koc.- 11.5 Partition Coefficient Between Air and Water KAW.- 11.6 Estimation of Bioconcentration Factors for Biota.- 11.7 Molecular Diffusion Coefficients.- 11.8 Substance Database.- Solutions of the Exercises.- References.- 2: CemoS User's Manual.

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