Calculation of soil-water and benthic sediment partition coefficients for mercury

To accurately model mercury transport to water bodies, an assessment of this pollutant's behavior in the watershed is critical. Partition coefficients, defined as an estimate of the ratio of the pollutant concentration sorbed onto soil/sediment particles to the pollutant concentration dissolved...

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Published in:Chemosphere (Oxford) 1997-08, Vol.35 (4), p.791-808
Main Authors: Lyon, B.F., Ambrose, R., Rice, G., Maxwell, C.J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Animals
Applied sciences
Biological and physicochemical properties of pollutants. Interaction in the soil
Brackish
Exact sciences and technology
Freshwater
Marine
Mercury - analysis
Mercury - chemistry
Methylmercury Compounds - analysis
Methylmercury Compounds - chemistry
Models, Theoretical
Pollution
Reference Values
Soil and sediments pollution
Soil Pollutants - analysis
Water Pollutants, Chemical - analysis
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Summary:To accurately model mercury transport to water bodies, an assessment of this pollutant's behavior in the watershed is critical. Partition coefficients, defined as an estimate of the ratio of the pollutant concentration sorbed onto soil/sediment particles to the pollutant concentration dissolved in pore water at equilibrium, is an important term in multimedia models. In this paper, partition coefficients are calculated for two broad species of mercury: inorganic mercuric mercury (Hg-II) and methylmercury (MHg). Although there is considerable variability in the calculated values, the approximate mean values for the soil-water partition coefficients range from 3.3x103 to 6.0x104 L/kg for Hg-II and 2.0x101 to 6.7x103 L/kg for MHg. For the benthic sediment partition coefficients, the values range from 5.7x103 to 9.9x105 L/kg for Hg-II, and 6.5x102 to 1.1x105 L/kg for MHg.
ISSN:0045-6535
1879-1298
DOI:10.1016/S0045-6535(97)00200-2