Overview

Understanding the mechanisms associated with metal complexes and the sequestering of metal contaminants in the environment is essential for effective remediation. Heavy Metals Release in Soils describes and quantifies desorption/release kinetics and dissolution reactions for heavy metals in soil. It focuses on: New techniques - microscopic surface techniques, NMR and electrophoresis, XAFS, SFM, and time-resolved ATR-FTIR, Theoretical analysis and kinetic approaches - adsorption/desorption hysteresis, competitive sorption and transport, multi-component models, speciation kinetics, sotherms and soil and metal parameters, and the role of soil properties in transport, Applications - arsenic speciation and mobility in contaminated soils, modeling activity of Cd, Zn. and Cu in contaminated soils, and in situ chemical immobilization, Heavy Metals Release in Soils gives you the added advantage of case studies at both the microscopic and macroscopic scales, and provides both experimental and numerical investigations. With contributions from an international panel of authors, this book fills a gap in the current literature concerned with subsurface contaminant fate and transport processes. Features, Explains the importance of the slow release of heavy metals as a contamination factor, Sheds light on the mechanisms of slow release and ways of predicting its behavior in soils, Includes recent advances in theoretical and experimental techniques, Covers new techniques such as: microscopic surface techniques, NMR and electrophoresis, XAFS, SFM, and Time-Resolved ATR-FTIR, Provides theoretical analysis and kinetic approaches such as: adsorption/desorption hysteresis, competitive sorption and transport, and multi-component models Book jacket.