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Bringing new understanding to the sorption and transport of heavy metals in soils and aquifers, this book explores the sorption and mobility of single versus multiple heavy metals species in the vadose zone. It relates transport mechanisms to processes that govern the sorption mechanisms dominating in a competitive system of multiple heavy metal species. Edited by H. Magdi Selim, and featuring expert contributors, the book presents new experimental evidence and field results. This comprehensive work helps scientists identify competitive transport processes to better predict the potential mobility of multiple heavy metals in soils.
About the author
H. Magdi Selim is professor of soil physics, A. George and Mildred L. Caldwell Endowed Professor, School of Plant, Environmental and Soil Science at Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge. He is internationally recognized for his research in the areas of kinetics of reactive chemicals in heterogeneous porous media and transport modeling of dissolved chemicals in water-saturated and unsaturated soils. Dr. Selim is the original developer of the two-site and second-order models for describing the retention processes of dissolved chemicals in soils and natural materials in porous media. Pioneering works also include multistep/multireaction and nonlinear kinetic models for heavy metals, radionuclides, explosive contaminants, and phosphorus and pesticides in soils and subsurface media. His research interests include saturated and unsaturated water flow in multilayered one- and two-dimensional systems.
