Soil column experiments used as a means to assess transport, sorption, and biodegradation of pesticides in groundwater
Titel:
Soil column experiments used as a means to assess transport, sorption, and biodegradation of pesticides in groundwater
Auteur:
Magga, Zoi Tzovolou, Dimitra N. Theodoropoulou, Maria A. Dalkarani, Theodora Pikios, Konstantinos Tsakiroglou, Christos D.
Verschenen in:
Journal of environmental science and health. Part B, Pesticides, food contaminants, and agricultural wastes
Paginering:
Jaargang 43 (2008) nr. 8 pagina's 732-741
Jaar:
2008-11
Inhoud:
Soil column experiments are used to investigate the fate of three pesticides of high, intermediate, and low solubility in groundwater: N- phosphonomethyl glycine (glyphosate); O,O-diethyl-S-[(ethylthio)methyl]phosphorodithioate (phorate); (2,4-dichlorophenoxy)acetic acid (2,4-D). Feed solutions are prepared by adding each pesticide (100 mg/L glyphosate, 50 μ g/L phorate, 50 mg/L 2,4-D) along with conservative tracer, KBr, in synthetic groundwater. The concentration of the pesticides in effluents is detected by ion chromatography (glyphosate, 2,4-D) and GC-FID (phorate). The Br- breakthrough curves are employed to estimate the dispersion coefficient and mean pore velocity in each column. Solute transport and reactive models accounting for equilibrium/non-equilibrium sorption and biodegradation are coupled with inverse modeling numerical codes to estimate the kinetic parameters for all pesticides.