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Publication history: Received May 1, 2008
Accepted June 2, 2008

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Analysis of the distribution of lead concentration under steady state conditions in urban multimedia environment

Wonjin Jeon Chee Burm Shin^† Jong Ho Kim¹ Byoung Kyu Kwak¹ Jongheop Yi¹ Jun Hee Lee² Woon Gi Lee² Sun Woo Lee³ Hyeon Soo Park³

Division of Energy Systems Research, Ajou University, Suwon 443-749, Korea ¹School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea ²Korea Testing and Research Institute, Seoul 150-038, Korea ³TO21 Inc., Seoul 156-012, Korea

cbshin@ajou.ac.kr

Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, November 2008, 25(6), 1401-1406(6), 10.1007/s11814-008-0230-z

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Abstract

The environmental contamination problems caused by accelerated industrialization are becoming increasingly important issues. It is necessary to estimate the distributions of the contaminants and to recognize the risks to our environment. The behavior of volatile organic compounds (VOC) can be analyzed with the concept of fugacity. However, it is difficult to simulate the fate of heavy metals with this concept, because their vapor pressure is extremely small or unknown. Therefore, the aquivalence (from “equivalent aqueous”) theory, which was derived from the fugacity theory, is utilized to establish a mathematical model and to analyze the fate of heavy metals in an urban multimedia system. The target heavy metal is lead and the target region is around Jungrang stream in Seoul. The multimedia is composed of air, water, sediment, soil and vegetation. To verify the proposed mathematical model, the modeling results were compared with the measurement data obtained from the Korea Testing and Research Institute.

Keywords

Equivalence Approach Heavy Metal Distribution Environmental Modeling Lead Concentration

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