Freely Dissolved Pore Water Concentrations and Sorption Coefficients of PAHs in Spiked, Aged, and Field-Contaminated Soils

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Abstract

Freely dissolved aqueous concentrations in the soil pore water represent an important aspect of bioavailability and risk assessment of contaminated soils. In this study, a negligible depletive partitioning based sampling technique was validated and applied to measure free concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in spiked, aged and field-contaminated soils. Detailed kinetic studies were performed to select appropriate equilibration times. Freely dissolved aqueous concentrations in the pore water were compared to total concentrations, and sorption coefficients were calculated. Results show that equilibrium partition models can predict sorption coefficients of freshly spiked and lab-aged soils rather accurately. However, freely dissolved pore water concentrations of field-contaminated soils are orders of magnitude lower than model predictions. Consequently, environmental risks can be highly overestimated with these models. The simple and sensitive partitioning-based sampling technique used in this study, could, therefore, be applicable to improve site-specific risk assessment of field-contaminated soils.

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