Title:
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Water-air volatilization factors to determine volatile organic compound (VOC) reference levels in water
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Author:
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Martí Gregorio, Vicenç; Pablo Ribas, Joan de; JUBANY, IRENE; Rovira, Miquel; Orejudo, Emili
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Other authors:
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Enginyeria Química; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. SETRI - Grup de Tècniques de Separació i Tractament de Residus Industrials |
Abstract:
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The goal of this work is the modeling and calculation of
volatilization factors
(VFs) from water to air for
volatile organic compounds
(VOCs) in order to perform
human
health risk
-
base
d reference levels
(RLs) for the safe use of water. The VF models have
been developed starting from
the
overall mass
-
transfer coefficients (
K
overall
) concept from
air to water for two interaction geometries (flat surface and spherical droplets) in indoor
a
nd outdoor scenarios
.
For
a case study with
five groups of risk scenarios
and thirty VOCs
,
theoretical VFs have been calculated
by using
the developed models.
Results showed that
K
overall
values
for flat and spherical
surface
geometries
were
close to
the
m
ass transfer
coefficient for water
(
K
L
)
when
Henry
’s law
constant (
K
H
)
was high. I
n the case of
s
pherical drop geometry
,
the
fraction of volatilization
(
f
V
)
was asymptotical
when
increasing
K
H
with
f
V
values also
limited
due to
K
overall
.
VFs for flat surfa
ces were
calculated from the emission flux of VOCs
,
and results showed values close to
1000
K
H
for
the most conservative indoor scenarios and almost constant values for outdoor scenarios.
VFs for spherical geometry
in indoor scenarios
followed
also constant
VFs and
were
far
from
1000
K
H
.
The highest calculated VF values corresponded to
the
E2A, E2B, E3A and
E5A scenarios and were compared with experimental
and real
results in order to check the
goodness of
flat and sphere geometry models. Results showed an ov
erestimation of
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calculated values for
the
E2A
and
E2B scenarios and an underestimation for
the
E3A and
E5A scenarios. In both cases
,
most of the calculated VFs were from 0.1
-
to 10
-
times higher
than experimental
/real
values |
Abstract:
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Peer Reviewed |
Subject(s):
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-Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria química::Química del medi ambient -Volatile organic compounds. -environmental
contam
inants -volatile
organic compounds -water
-
air modeling -h
uman
h
ealth
r
isk
a
ssessment -exposure
models -v
olatilization
f
actors -Compostos orgànics volàtils -- Aspectes ambientals |
Rights:
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Spain
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ |
Document type:
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Article - Published version Article |
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