You are the environmental officer for a chemical company and you need to consider worst case scenarios for accident during shipping of o-xylene. Three scenarios are to be considered: each situation shold be considered independent from the two other scenarios. In all cases, the system temperature is 20 oC and the length of the contaminated zone is 15 m. Additional information summarized in the table below describes properties of o-xylene and expected average characteristics for the air and water environments where the shipping takes place.
a) What is the maximum possible flux from water to air (mg/m2d)?
b) What is the maximum possible flux from contaminated soil into air (mg/m2d)?
c) What is the maximum possible flux from contaminated sediment into water (mg/m2d)?
