Environ. Sci. Technol. 2008, 42, 3690–3696
Dependence of Persistence and Long-Range Transport Potential on Gas-Particle Partitioning in Multimedia Models CHRISTIAN W. GÖTZ, MARTIN SCHERINGER,* MATTHEW MACLEOD, FABIO WEGMANN, URS SCHENKER, AND KONRAD HUNGERBÜHLER Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Received October 16, 2007. Revised manuscript received February 5, 2008. Accepted February 12, 2008.
A novel approach of modeling gas-particle partitioning using polyparameter linear free energy relationships (ppLFERs) is implemented into three different multimedia box models (the OECD Pov and LRTP screening tool (The Tool), ChemRange, and CliMoChem) and compared to approaches based on the octanolair partition coefficient (KOA). In all three multimedia models, calculated overall persistence is not strongly influenced (differences