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Kategorie Textpublikation
Referenztyp Zeitschriften
DOI 10.1021/es062608z
Titel (primär) Nonlinear sorption of three alcohol ethoxylates to marine sediment: a combined langmuir and linear sorption process?
Autor Droge, S.T.J.; Hermens, J.L.M.
Quelle Environmental Science & Technology
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
Department AUC
Band/Volume 41
Heft 9
Seite von 3192
Seite bis 3198
Sprache englisch
Abstract Alcohol ethoxylates (AE) are nonionic surfactants mainly used in laundry cleaning products. The relation between particle bound and freely dissolved concentrations is an important entity in risk assessment. The mechanistic understanding of AE sorption is still poor, hampering extrapolations from laboratory studies to the field. We studied the sorption of three AE with 8 EO units but with increasing alkyl chains (C-10, C-12, and C-14) to a marine sediment. Solid-phase microextraction, using polyacrylate as the extraction phase, was applied to measure freely dissolved concentrations in pore water. A model that combines a Langmuir and a linear sorption term fitted the nonlinear sorption data to sediment well. At low aqueous concentrations, adsorption dominates over absorption leading to higher distribution coefficients for AE at low field concentrations. This dual-mode model offers the possibility to extrapolate to other AE homologues and other marine sediments and also from high to low field concentrations
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Droge, S.T.J., Hermens, J.L.M. (2007):
Nonlinear sorption of three alcohol ethoxylates to marine sediment: a combined langmuir and linear sorption process?
Environ. Sci. Technol. 41 (9), 3192 - 3198 10.1021/es062608z