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©2001 CRC Press LLC<br />

Z T = S(V i/V T)Z i =Sv iZ i<br />

where v i is the volume fraction of each phase. The key point is that the component<br />

Z values add in proportion to their volume fractions.<br />

The use of bulk Z values helps to simplify calculations by reducing the number<br />

of compartments, but it does assume that equilibrium exists within the bulk compartment.<br />

Worked Example 5.9<br />

An aquarium contains 10 m 3 of water and 200 fish, each of volume 1 cm 3 . How<br />

will 0.01 g (i.e., 10 mg) of benzene and the same mass of DDT partition between<br />

water and fish, given that the fish are 5% lipids, and log K OW is 2.13 for benzene<br />

and 6.19 for DDT?<br />

K FW will be 0.05 K OW or 6.7 for benzene and 77440 for DDT.<br />

C T is 0.001 g/m 3 or 1 mg/m 3 in both cases.<br />

The fraction dissolved j 2 is 1/(1 + K FWv F), where v F is the volume fraction of fish,<br />

i.e., 200 ¥ 10 –6 /10 = 2 ¥ 10 –5 .<br />

For benzene, K FWv F is 0.00013.<br />

For DDT, K FWv F is 1.55.<br />

The fractions dissolved are 0.99987, essentially 1.0, for benzene and 0.39 for DDT.<br />

The dissolved concentrations are thus 0.00099987 g/m 3 or 0.99987 mg/m 3 (benzene)<br />

and 0.00039 g/m 3 or 0.39 mg/m 3 (DDT), and the sorbed concentrations (per m 3 of<br />

water) are 0.00013 mg/m 3 and 0.61 mg/m 3 , respectively. The sorbed concentrations<br />

per m 3 of fish are 0.0067 g/m 3 and 30 g/m 3 , respectively.<br />

Example 5.10<br />

A lake of volume 10 6 m 3 contains 15 mg/L of sorbing material. The total<br />

concentration of a chemical of K P equal to 10 5 L/kg is 1 mg/L. What are the dissolved<br />

and sorbed concentrations?<br />

Answer<br />

0.4 mg/L dissolved and 0.6 mg/L sorbed.<br />

5.6.5 Maximum Fugacity<br />

When fugacities are calculated, it is advisable to check that the value deduced<br />

is lower than the fugacity of the pure phase, i.e., the solid or liquid fugacity or, in<br />

the case of gases, of atmospheric pressure. If these fugacities are exceeded, supersaturation<br />

has occurred, a “maximum permissible fugacity” has been exceeded, and<br />

the system will automatically “precipitate” a pure solute phase until the fugacity<br />

drops to the saturation value. It is possible to calculate inadvertently and use (i.e.,

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