Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Microplastic Pollution in the Mediterranean Sea by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030459093
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

2 Experimental

The experiments investigate and quantify the continuous influence of sediments, salt water and wave action on the degradation and fragmentation behaviour of microplastics. The tests run long time (≥30 days) to ensure a continuous interaction of the microplastics with the sediment and the milling like processes induced through wave action.

2.1 Materials

Sediment.

For the experiments the grain size distributions of a typical sand beach of the Baltic Sea are used. The grain classes are examined individually in the experiments in order to investigate the influence of different grain sizes on abrasiveness as well. Before starting the experiments, quartz sand was washed, dried and sieved into the grain classes 0.25–0.5 mm, 0.5–1 mm and 1–2 mm [27]. Any organic material has already been removed by the manufacturer.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.