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5471867 
Journal Article 
Predicting the fate and transport of organic compounds in groundwater. Part 2 
Davis, A; Olsen, RL 
1990 
Hazardous Materials Control
ISSN: 0895-3260 
3 
4 
18-37 
English 
Adsorption and biodegradation appear to be major fate processes in the subsurface groundwater environment. Depending upon the types of molecules and subsurface conditions, adsorption can predominate in the short term; however, for labile organic compounds, the ultimate fate process is biodegradation. Various transport models are applied to several cases typically encountered during site investigations. These include: degradation of halogenated solvents, the kinetics of degradation, the power rate and hyperbolic rate laws, transport and degradation of trichloroethane and benzene in groundwater, modeling vapor phase transport, and modeling percolation in surface spills in the vadose zone.