Environmental Research Brief: Modeling Soil-Water Distribution of Aromatic Aminesin Water Saturated Soil Systems

摘要

Research summarized in this report focuses on the abiotic interactions ofaromatic amines with whole soils in aqueous systems. This work was initiated to improve our ability to predict the mobility of aromatic amines and their potential to contaminate groundwater, and to improve subsequent remediation of contaminated sites. The results of this work show that interaction of aromatic amines with soils during short time can be adequately predicted on a macro-scale assuming cation exchange as the primary mechanism and utilizing the pKa of the amine, soil cation exchange capacity, and soil-solution pH.