What is the importance of Sorption Studies from environmental point view??

Question

While I was doing Sorption study, I did not understand, why people do sorption (e.g. sorption of PAHs)research?? What they can say to the public about this with the context of environment??

Answer 1

An important concept in environmental science is thinking about things as a system.  Components of the environment flow from one area of storage to the next.  This can be of special interest when the component being looked at is a contaminant.  Sorption studies tell us something about the character of the storage points in the system (also known as 'sinks').

For example, the capacity of a soil to hold copper ions determines how much can be added to that system before excess ions begin to be released into the groundwater.