ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the environmental fate and transport of stabilizer compounds by profiling their potential to persist in air, surface water, soil, and groundwater. It focuses on those stabilizer compounds that become concentrated by the industrial processes that precede their discharge. The processes governing the fate and transport of contaminants following their release to the environment are the subject of a number of books and thousands of peer-reviewed papers. The chapter reviews the key processes that determine the environmental fate and transport properties for 1,4-dioxane and some of the other solvent-stabilizer compounds. Estimating the rate of chemical transfer from soil to air is complicated by the wide range of possible fates for the stabilizer compound when discharged to soil. The chapter discusses the interaction of the chemical at the water-air interface plays an important role in fate and transport processes.
