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Toxicity, Adsorption, and Dissipation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Soil

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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are typical persistent organic pollutants (POPs) that mostly generated from the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, waste incineration, forest and prairie fires, and industrial processes (Bamforth and Singleton 2005; Zeng et al. 2010). They are widespread distributed in environments, such as soil, air, water, sediment, etc. (Johnson et al. 2005). Because of their potential bioaccumulation and high toxicity, great attention has been paid to study the behavior of PAHs in soil and to develop effective practices to remediate PAHs-contaminated soil in the past decades. In this chapter, some work about the toxicity (Ma et al. 2010a), adsorption (Li et al. 2013; Zeng et al. 2014; He et al. 2015a; Ma et al. 2011, 2016), and dissipation of PAHs (Ma et al. 2010b, c; He et al. 2015b) in soil conducted in our group these years is reviewed.

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This work was supported by the Major Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China (41130532) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities.

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    Jianming Xu, Haizhen Wang, Yan He & Bin Ma

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Xu, J., Wang, H., He, Y., Ma, B. (2018). Toxicity, Adsorption, and Dissipation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Soil. In: Luo, Y., Tu, C. (eds) Twenty Years of Research and Development on Soil Pollution and Remediation in China. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6029-8_37

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