Bioturbation Delays Attenuation of DDT by Clean Sediment Cap but Promotes Sequestration by Thin-Layered Activated Carbon
- Submitting institution
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University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 197005-61749-1293
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1021/es404108h
- Title of journal
- Environmental Science and Technology
- Article number
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- First page
- 1175
- Volume
- 48
- Issue
- 2
- ISSN
- 0013-936X
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2014
- URL
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https://doi.org/10.1021/es404108h
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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3
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This international collaboration with leading researchers at Stanford University in the United States presents and validates the first modelling software capable of simulating the impact of bioturbation on activated carbon amendment benefits in caps. The validated simulation tool enhances confidence in sorbent-amendment as a novel environmental engineering technology with proven potential to cost-effectively stop the transfer of toxic and carcinogenic chemicals like PCBs or DDT from hot spots of industrial legacy pollution in sediment into the aquatic food chain. The model predictions have since been validated by remediation field work in Norway and the United States.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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