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NONEQUILIBRIUM SORPTION DURING DISPLACEMENT OF HYRDOPHOBIC ORGANIC CHEMICALS AND 45CA THROUGH SOIL COLUMNS WITH AQUEOUS AND MIXED SOLVENTS
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NkediKizza, P., M. L. Brusseau, P. Surech, C. Rao, AND A. R. Hornsby. NONEQUILIBRIUM SORPTION DURING DISPLACEMENT OF HYRDOPHOBIC ORGANIC CHEMICALS AND 45CA THROUGH SOIL COLUMNS WITH AQUEOUS AND MIXED SOLVENTS. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 23(7):814-820, (1989).
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A series of miscible displacement experiments was conducted to investigate the significance of intraorganic matter diffusion (IOMD) as the rate-limiting step in sorption of organic and inorganic solutes during steady water flow in soil columns. Displacement studies were performed using Eustis surface soil and the same soil treated with hydrogen peroxide to reduce soil organic carbon content from 0.2% to <0.01%. Two herbicides (diuron and atrazine) were also displaced with binary solvent mixtures containing varying fractions of methanol and water (0-50% methanol). A bicontinuum nonequi- librium sorption model was used to simulate the measured effluent breakthrough curves (BTCs) obtained by simul- taneous displacement of a nonadsorbed tracer (tritiated water), an organic solute (herbicide), and a metal cation (46Ca). Support for IOMD as the rate-limiting step in sorption was provided by the following: (i) lack of asym- metry for the BTCs of tritiated water and *Ca in contrast to the asymmetrical BTCs of the two herbicides for aqueous displacements; (ii) symmetrical BTCs for all so- lutes displaced through the soil that was treated to remove organic matter; (iii) decreasing asymmetry with increasing methanol content in the displacing solution. An analysis of the bicontinuum sorption model parameters also sup- ported this conclusion.
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