Toxic chemicals in environment and models for predicting their degradation and fate
- Inst. Ruder Boskovic, Zagreb (Croatia)
During the last 50 years many man-made chemicals have reached every corner of the global environment despite the limitations on their use in some regions and the fact that many of them were not deliberately released into the environment. Both the mobility and persistence of commercial chemicals are the key factors for evaluating their ultimate fate and possible adverse effects on mankind and environment. The notorious global adverse effects are climate changes such as global warming, acid rain, forest decline, as well as permanent degradation of the environment and quality of life. Global and regional models have been developed for predicting transport of chemicals in atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere and hence their ultimate fate or their environmental sinks. Performance of these models will be demonstrated on several classes of persistent organic chemicals. However, in order to work reliably, global and regional models for environmental fate of chemicals require, as input parameters, their physico-chemical properties and reactivity data. Unfortunately, these data are unavailable for the majority of commercial chemicals and necessary data must be calculated or estimated. The present state of the art on the calculation and estimation of several critical environmental parameters, i.e. soil sorption coefficients, tropospheric and microbiological degradation rates will be presented and evaluated including the most recent results from our laboratory.
- OSTI ID:
- 447638
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960343-; TRN: 96:006128-0116
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 2. international congress on theoretical chemical physics, New Orleans, LA (United States), 9-13 Mar 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Second international congress on theoretical chemical physics - ICTCP II; PB: 90 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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