Transport and fate of microbial pathogens in agricultural settings

SA Bradford, VL Morales, W Zhang… - Critical reviews in …, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
An understanding of the transport and survival of microbial pathogens (pathogens hereafter)
in agricultural settings is needed to assess the risk of pathogen contamination to water and …

Colloid transport and retention in unsaturated porous media: A review of interface‐, collector‐, and pore‐scale processes and models

SA Bradford, S Torkzaban - Vadose Zone Journal, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Our ability to accurately simulate the transport and retention of colloids in the vadose zone is
currently limited by our lack of basic understanding of colloid retention processes that occur …

Aging significantly affects mobility and contaminant-mobilizing ability of nanoplastics in saturated loamy sand

J Liu, T Zhang, L Tian, X Liu, Z Qi, Y Ma… - Environmental …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Plastic debris, in particular, microplastics and nanoplastics, is becoming an emerging class
of pollutants of global concern. Aging can significantly affect the physicochemical properties …

Is it possible to efficiently and sustainably remove microplastics from sediments using froth flotation?

H Jiang, Y Zhang, K Bian, C Wang, X Xie… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Microplastics (MPs) contamination in sediments is becoming an intractable environmental
issue. Numerous methods are proposed for removing microplastics from aqueous solution …

Transport of polystyrene nanoplastics in natural soils: Effect of soil properties, ionic strength and cation type

X Wu, X Lyu, Z Li, B Gao, X Zeng, J Wu… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Nanoplastics as emerging pollutants have caused growing concerns and posed potential
threats to the environment. Nonetheless, only few studies investigated transport behaviors of …

Phosphorus-enhanced and calcium-retarded transport of ferrihydrite colloid: mechanism of electrostatic potential changes regulated via adsorption speciation

J Ma, J Li, L Weng, X Ouyang, Y Chen… - Environmental Science & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The transport of ferrihydrite colloid (FHC) through porous media is influenced by anions (eg,
PO43–) and cations (eg, Ca2+) in the aqueous environment. This study investigated the …

Transport behaviors of plastic particles in saturated quartz sand without and with biochar/Fe3O4-biochar amendment

M Tong, L He, H Rong, M Li, H Kim - Water research, 2020 - Elsevier
As an environmentally friendly material, biochar has been widely used to remediate
soil/water contaminants such as heavy metals and organic pollutants. The addition of …

Vertical migration of microplastics in porous media: Multiple controlling factors under wet-dry cycling

J Gao, S Pan, P Li, L Wang, R Hou, WM Wu… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Terrestrial soils are not only a large reservoir for Microplastics (MPs), but also a possible
entrance to the subsurface environment, posing potential risks to the subterranean habitats …

Effects of clay minerals on the transport of polystyrene nanoplastic in groundwater

X Ye, Z Cheng, M Wu, Y Hao, G Lu, BX Hu, C Mo, Q Li… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Microplastics are widely detected in the soil-groundwater environment, which has attracted
more and more attention. Clay mineral is an important component of the porous media …

Size-dependent transport and retention of micron-sized plastic spheres in natural sand saturated with seawater

Z Dong, Y Qiu, W Zhang, Z Yang, L Wei - Water research, 2018 - Elsevier
A series of one-dimensional column experiments were conducted to investigate the
transport and retention of micron-sized plastic spheres (MPs) with diameters of 0.1–2.0 μm …