# Copyright (C) 2015 Johannes Ranke # Contact: jranke@uni-bremen.de # This file is part of the R package pfm # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under # the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software # Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later # version. # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT # ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS # FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more # details. # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with # this program. If not, see #' Calculate predicted environmental concentrations in soil #' #' This is a basic, vectorised form of a simple calculation of a contaminant #' concentration in bulk soil based on complete, instantaneous mixing. #' #' @param rate Application rate in units specified below #' @param rate_units Defaults to g/ha #' @param interception The fraction of the application rate that does not reach the soil #' @param mixing_depth Mixing depth in cm #' @param bulk_density Bulk density of the soil. Defaults to 1.5 kg/L, or 1500 kg/m3 #' @param PEC_units Requested units for the calculated PEC. Only mg/kg currently supported #' @return The predicted concentration in soil #' @export #' @author Johannes Ranke #' @examples #' PEC_soil(100, interception = 0.25) PEC_soil <- function(rate, rate_units = "g/ha", interception = 0, mixing_depth = 5, bulk_density = 1.5, PEC_units = "mg/kg") { rate_to_soil = (1 - interception) * rate rate_units = match.arg(rate_units) PEC_units = match.arg(PEC_units) soil_volume = 100 * 100 * (mixing_depth/100) # in m3 soil_mass = soil_volume * bulk_density * 1000 # in kg PEC_soil = rate_to_soil * 1000 / soil_mass # in mg/kg return(PEC_soil) }