Mechanism and consequences of slow desorption of organic compounds from sediments

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1 Introduction

Part I: Phenomenology of the kinetic fractions: 2 Desorption kinetics of chlorobenzenes, PAHs and PCBs: Sediment extractuin with Tenax® and effects of contact time and solute hydrophobicity

Part I: Phenomenology of the kinetic fractions: 3 Effect of temperature on sorption coefficients and sorption of organic micropollutants - a review

Part I: Phenomenology of the kinetic fractions: 4 The temperature dependence of slow adsorption and desorption kinetics of organic compounds in sediments

Part I: Phenomenology of the kinetic fractions: 5 A solid-state fluor-NMR study on hexafluorobenzene sorbed in sediments, polymers and active carbon

Part II: slow desorption and sediment characteristics: 6 Slow desorption of PCBs and chlorobenzenes from soils and sediments: relations with sorbent and sorbate characteristics

Part II: slow desorption and sediment characteristics: 7 The mechanism of slow desorption of organic compounds from sediments: a study using model sorbents

Part III: Site-sorption and retarded diffusion: 8 Slowly and very slowly desorbing organic compounds in sediments show nonlinear Langmuir-type sorption

Part III: Site-sorption and retarded diffusion: 9 Competition effects in the slow desorption of organic compounds from sediments

Part III: Site-sorption and retarded diffusion: 10 Particle size dependence of slow desorption of in situ PAHs from sediments

Part IV: Consequences of slow desorption: 11 Two-stage desorption kinetics and in situ partitioning of hexachlorobenzene and dichlorobenzenes in a contaminated sediment

Part IV: Consequences of slow desorption: 12 Rapidly desorbing fractions of PAHs in contaminated sediments as a predicator of the extent of bioremediation

13 Concluding discussion

14 Discussion of regulatory issues

Summary

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Dankwoord

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