Fate of Trichloroethylene

This lecture explores the environmental fate and behavior of trichloroethylene (TCE), a halocarbon widely used as an industrial solvent. It covers its history, properties, toxicity, production, chemical instability, environmental fate models, and remediation methods. The lecture discusses TCE's presence in different environmental compartments, its continuous emission, and the influence of groundwater-surface water interactions. Various estimation methods for Henry's law constant and vapor pressure are presented, along with the impact of soil properties and water vapor in air on TCE sorption. References to studies on TCE's sorption in soils and its removal by air-stripping using granular activated carbon are also provided.