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Apr 26, 2012
Associations of PAHs with Size Fractionated Sediment Particles
Authors: Jejal Reddy Bathi [email protected], Robert Pitt [email protected], and Shirley E. Clark [email protected]Author Affiliations
Publication: World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2009: Great Rivers
Abstract
Sediment samples were collected from three different locations and analyzed for selected parameters to study the effects of selected sediment characteristics and contributing source areas on sediment PAHs concentration. For all cases, the particles in the size range of 180 to 355 μm were most dominant in the sediments. Sediment COD, percent of material weight loss on ignition (material composition analysis) and sediment PAH concentrations showed similar trends of smaller and larger particles associations with higher values than with the intermediate sizes. However, most of the mass of the PAHs were associated with the smaller and intermediate sized particles. Sediments affected by commercial area runoff were found to have higher concentration of PAHs than the sediments affected by noncommercial area runoff.
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World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2009: Great Rivers
Pages: 1 - 10
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© 2009 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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- Business management
- Carbon
- Chemical compounds
- Chemical elements
- Chemical processes
- Chemicals
- Chemistry
- Earth materials
- Engineering fundamentals
- Environmental engineering
- Geology
- Geomaterials
- Geotechnical engineering
- Hydrocarbons
- Hydrologic engineering
- Hydrology
- Mathematics
- Mitigation and remediation
- Oxygen demand
- Parameters (statistics)
- Particle size distribution
- Practice and Profession
- River engineering
- Runoff
- Sediment
- Statistics
- Subsurface environment
- Water and water resources
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Geosyntec Consultants, Santa Barbara, CA — 93101. E-mail: [email protected]
Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35401. E-mail: [email protected]
Penn State Harrisburg, School of Science, Engineering and Technology, Harrisburg Pike, PA - 17507. E-mail: [email protected]
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