Chemical Fate and Transport in the Environment

The third edition of Chemical Fate and Transport in the Environment—winner of a 2015 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty) from The Text and Academic Authors Association—explains the fundamental principles of mass transport, chemical partitioning, and chemical/biological transformations in surface waters, in soil and groundwater, and in air. Each of these three major environmental media is introduced by descriptive overviews, followed by a presentation of the controlling physical, chemical, and biological processes. The text emphasizes intuitively based mathematical models for chemical transport and transformations in the environment, and serves both as a textbook for senior undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental science and engineering, and as a standard reference for environmental practitioners.

• Winner of a 2015 Texty Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association
• Includes many worked examples as well as extensive exercises at the end of each chapter
• Illustrates the interconnections and similarities among environmental media through its coverage of surface waters, the subsurface, and the atmosphere
• Written and organized concisely to map to a single-semester course
• Discusses and builds upon fundamental concepts, ensuring that the material is accessible to readers who do not have an extensive background in environmental science

Senior undergraduate and first-year graduate students in environmental science or environmental engineering programs; students in other disciplines, such as geotechnical engineering, who seek basic environmental literacy; practitioners in environmental consulting and management firms and government agencies.

• Preface
• Chapter 1: Basic Concepts

  • Abstract
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Chemical Concentration
  • 1.3 Mass Balance and Units
  • 1.4 Physical Transport of Chemicals
  • 1.5 Mass Balance in an Infinitely Small Control Volume: The Advection-Dispersion-Reaction Equation
  • 1.6 Basic Environmental Chemistry
  • 1.7 Chemical Distribution Among Phases at Equilibrium
  • 1.8 Analytical Chemistry and Measurement Error
  • 1.9 Conclusion
• Chapter 2: Surface Waters

  • Abstract
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Physical Transport in Surface Waters
  • 2.3 Air-Water Exchange
  • 2.4 Chemical and Biological Characteristics of Surface Waters
  • 2.5 Dissolved Oxygen Modeling in Surface Waters
  • 2.6 Biotransformation and Biodegradation
  • 2.7 Abiotic Chemical Transformations
  • 2.8 Conclusion
• Chapter 3: The Subsurface Environment

  • Abstract
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Physics of Groundwater Movement
  • 3.3 Flow in the Unsaturated (Vadose) Zone
  • 3.4 The Flow of Nonaqueous Phase Liquids
  • 3.5 Retardation
  • 3.6 Biodegradation in the Subsurface Environment
  • 3.7 Subsurface Remediation
  • 3.8 Conclusion
• Chapter 4: The Atmosphere

  • Abstract
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Atmospheric Stability
  • 4.3 Circulation of the Atmosphere
  • 4.4 Transport of Chemicals in the Atmosphere
  • 4.5 Physical Removal of Chemicals from the Atmosphere
  • 4.6 Atmospheric Chemical Reactions
  • 4.7 The Greenhouse Effect and Global Climate Change
  • 4.8 Conclusion
• Appendix: Dimensions and Units for Environmental Quantities

  • A.1 Fundamental Dimensions and Common Units of Measurement
  • A.2 Derived Dimensions and Common Units