PACMAN Assessment and Management of polar PACs in Contaminated soils and Remedial processes.

The objectives of this project are to assess to what extend the compounds belonging to the group polar PACs (e.g. oxy-PAHs and azaarenes) involve additional 
risk at PAH-contaminated sites, and also to find ways to manage and reduce this potential risk. The first objective will be fulfilled through collection of 
data regarding the occurrence and distribution of polar PACs at contaminated sites, their potential formation in remediation processes as well as regarding 
their negative effects on human health and the environment. The data collected will be supplemented by sampling and monitoring at selected contaminated sites, 
and by experimental studies of selected remediation processes in laboratory and field conditions.    
    
The second objective will be fulfilled by data collection aiming at identifying knowledge gaps that need to be filled for proper risk assessment of the polar 
PACs (e.g. for the development of generic guideline values for the compounds), supplemented by experimental studies that will fill some of these gaps (i.e. 
leaching experiments), and by identifying and evaluating remediation processes that potentially can minimize the risk associated with polar PAC formation. 
   
    
The knowledge gained with the project will be important in future risk assessments of PAC-contaminated sites, and also in the decisions regarding how the 
risk at these sites should be managed. Analytical development will be valorised both as pre-normative and as pre-regulatory research. Furthermore, the project 
will facilitate the dissemination of the knowledge gained about polar PACs, both within the partner countries as well as in whole Europe.