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Guleria A, Chakma S. Mechanistic insights into contaminant transport dynamics in the saturated porous system in the presence of low permeability region using numerical simulations and temporal moment analysis. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2023; 30:89071-89087. [PMID: 37452242 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-023-28779-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2023] [Accepted: 07/10/2023] [Indexed: 07/18/2023]
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The influence of low permeability porous media (LPPM) on contaminant transport dynamics in saturated porous systems was investigated using numerical simulations and temporal moments of contaminant concentrations. Two-dimensional flow and contaminant transport simulations were conducted, considering various parameters such as longitudinal dispersivity (ranging from 15 to 60 m), the ratio of transverse to longitudinal dispersivity (ranging from 0.05 to 0.2), retardation factor (ranging from 1 to 4), and hydraulic gradient (ranging from 0.005 to 0.02) for both homogeneous and heterogeneous porous systems. The findings revealed significant differences in the transport behavior of conservative and highly reactive contaminants between the porous systems without and with the LPPM region. The center of mass of contaminant plume and peak concentration zone were observed inside the LPPM region for the heterogeneous porous system, especially during the source off-loading period. Furthermore, asymmetric distributions of the zeroth temporal moment (ZTM), mean residence time (MRT), and variance of the breakthrough curve (BTC) were observed along the longitudinal distance within the LPPM region for heterogeneous porous system, highlighting the impact of heterogeneity on contaminant plume evolution dynamics. The moment analysis results provided insights into the influence of LPPM region on time-averaged contaminant transport dynamics in adjacent porous systems. These findings can help risk managers understand the complex fate and transport dynamics in heterogeneous porous systems. Future studies could explore the modelling of multispecies contaminants in heterogeneous saturated porous systems subjected to fluctuating water table.
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- Abhay Guleria
- Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India.
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- Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India
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Wang S, Wei J, Zheng Z, Wu J, Xu J, Xie H. Transport of dimethyl phthalate on loess with modified bentonite: A batch and column test investigation. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2023; 879:162962. [PMID: 36958554 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162962] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/27/2022] [Revised: 02/19/2023] [Accepted: 03/16/2023] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Phthalic acid ester (PAE) is a toxic pollutant commonly found in high concentrations in municipal solid waste landfills. Soil-bentonite is widely used as a barrier material to control groundwater contaminants from landfill leachates. Traditional soil-bentonite materials always have a limited capacity for organic pollutant adsorption. To address this issue, the adsorption and transport behavior of dimethyl phthalate (DMP) on loess amended with two kinds of modified bentonite (HTMAC-B, modified with hexadecyltrimethylammonium chloride; CMC-B, modified with hydrophobic cationic surfactant, and carboxymethyl cellulose) were investigated. The kinetics of DMP adsorption indicates that film diffusion contributes significantly to the kinetic adsorption of DMP on HTMAC-B. The adsorption isotherm results showed that partitioning dominated DMP adsorption on loess with both modified bentonites. Owing to the in-ionic sites in HTMAC-B, which attracted hydrophobic compounds such as DMP, the adsorption capacity of 5 % HTMAC-B-amended loess (LH) was increased by a factor of 3.2. However, because CMC-B provided mostly ionic sites, 5 % CMC-B-amended loess (LC) had a little effect on DMP adsorption. The hydraulic conductivity values of LH and LC were 5.95 × 10-10 and 1.65 × 10-11 m/s, respectively. The X-CT result showed that there is a significant porosity change for both LH and LC. Dual-porosity model reveals that the leaching process primarily affects micro-pores, rather than larger pores in the soil matrix. The predicted retardation factors for LH and LC were 38.89 and 9.67, respectively. When using loess-bentonite as barrier material, the amendment of HTMAC-B and CMC-B can help to increase the retardation ability and reduce the permeability, respectively.
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- Shaoyi Wang
- Power China Huadong Engineering Corporation Limited, Hangzhou 311122, China; Huadong Eco-Environmental Engineering Research Institute of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Power China Huadong Engineering Corporation Limited, Hangzhou 311122, China; Huadong Eco-Environmental Engineering Research Institute of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Power China Huadong Engineering Corporation Limited, Hangzhou 311122, China
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- College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
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- Power China Huadong Engineering Corporation Limited, Hangzhou 311122, China
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- College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
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Column Experiments on Sorption Coefficients and Biodegradation Rates of Selected Pharmaceuticals in Three Aquifer Sediments. WATER 2019. [DOI: 10.3390/w12010014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The presence of pharmaceuticals in the environment, and in groundwater, has been recognized as a great environmental concern. Biodegradation and sorption are the main processes leading to the removal of contamination from the water phase. The aim of this study was to determine the transport processes of selected pharmaceuticals (antipyrine, atenolol, carbamazepine, caffeine, diclofenac, ketoprofen, sulfamethoxazole) in selected sediments (coarse sand, medium sand, sandy loam) in laboratory experiments. Moreover, the impact of flow velocities on the sorption and degradation rates of the selected compounds was studied. Column experiments were performed at three flow velocities, under abiotic and biotic conditions, applying conservative (bromide) and reactive tracers (pharmaceuticals). From the breakthrough curves, retardation factors and degradation rates were determined and the influence of variable flow conditions on transport parameters was evaluated. Low observed concentrations and recoveries of atenolol indicated a strong influence of sorption on its transport. Diclofenac, caffeine, and carbamazepine were also affected by sorption but to a lesser extent. Sulfamethoxazole, ketoprofen, and antipyrine were recovered nearly completely, indicating an almost conservative transport behavior. Biodegradation was small for all the compounds, as the results from biotic and abiotic column experiments were similar. Transport of the tested pharmaceuticals was not influenced by different flow velocities, as similar modelled degradation rates and retardation factors were found for all tested flow velocities.
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Gharasoo M, Wietzke LM, Knorr B, Bakkour R, Elsner M, Stumpp C. A robust optimization technique for analysis of multi-tracer experiments. JOURNAL OF CONTAMINANT HYDROLOGY 2019; 224:103481. [PMID: 31005265 DOI: 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2019.04.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2019] [Revised: 03/15/2019] [Accepted: 04/09/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Fate and transport of solutes in heterogeneous porous media is largely affected by diffusive mass exchange between mobile and immobile water zones. Since it is difficult to directly measure and determine the effect in the aquifers, multi-tracer experiments in combination with mathematical modeling are used to obtain quantitative information about unknown system parameters such as the effective mobile and immobile porosity, and the diffusive mass exchange between mobile and immobile water zones. The Single Fissure Dispersion Model (SFDM) describing nonreactive transport of solutes in saturated dual-porosity media, has been employed as a modeling approach to explain dual-porosity experiments in the field and laboratory (column experiments). SFDM optimization with conventional methods of minimization was immensely difficult due to its complex analytical form. Thus, previous studies used a trial and error procedure to fit it to the experimental observations. In this study, a rigorous optimization technique based on the newly developed scatter search method is presented that automatically minimizes the SFDM to find the optimal values of the hydrogeologically related parameters. The new program (OptSFDM) is accompanied with an easy-to-use graphical user interface (GUI) that is flexible and fully integrated. The program usability is showcased by a few, previously presented experimental case studies, and compared against the currently available, trial-and-error based, command-line executable, SFDM code.
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- Mehdi Gharasoo
- University of Waterloo, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Ecohydrology, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada; Helmholtz Zentrum München, Institute of Groundwater Ecology, Ingolstädter Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany.
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- German Research Centre for Geoscience - GFZ, Hydrology, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
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- Helmholtz Zentrum München, Institute of Groundwater Ecology, Ingolstädter Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Technical University of Munich, Chair of Analytical Chemistry and Water Chemistry, Marchioninistr. 17, 81377 Munich, Germany
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- Technical University of Munich, Chair of Analytical Chemistry and Water Chemistry, Marchioninistr. 17, 81377 Munich, Germany
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- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Institute of Hydraulics and Rural Water Management, Muthgasse 18, 1190 Vienna, Austria
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Knorr B, Maloszewski P, Stumpp C. Analytical transport modelling of metabolites formed in dual-porosity media. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2017; 24:4447-4456. [PMID: 27943139 DOI: 10.1007/s11356-016-8115-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2016] [Accepted: 11/14/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Contaminants like nitroaromatic compounds can be degraded in the subsurface to similar or even more toxic metabolites. Degradation or transformation rates are dependent on physical, chemical and biological properties which can be different in sedimentological layers or other heterogeneous structures of aquifers. Sediments with low hydraulic conductivity can even consist of immobile water. These regions are only accessible by diffusion. Most modelling approaches accounting for immobile water regions focused on the mathematical description of the transport and decay of the parent compound. The objective of this study was to develop an analytical model to quantify the transport and formation of a metabolite in dual-porosity media describing the exchange between mobile and immobile water regions based on the metabolite's diffusion coefficient. Column experiments with a well-defined immobile water region were performed under anoxic conditions at three different water flow velocities. The model compound 4-Cl-nitrobenzene was reduced to 4-Cl-aniline (4-Cl-An) by surface-bound Fe (II) species within the immobile water region. Transport and formation of the metabolite were quantified with a modified solution of the single fissure dispersion model assuming additionally for the region with immobile water first-order metabolite production, irreversible sorption and an instantaneous equilibrium sorption. The number of unknown fitting parameters was reduced to two (sorption rate and retardation factor) by stepwise parameter estimation using tracer and parent compound data. Experimental results of the metabolite for each water flow velocity were successfully described with a first-order production term (λ prod = 1.51 ± 0.08 h-1), retardation factor (R im = 2.94 ± 0.45) and first-order irreversible sorption rate (K im = 0.39 ± 0.16 h-1) within the immobile water region. Model results supported that 4-Cl-An was formed within the immobile water region. 4-Cl-An sorbed instantaneously onto the clay matrix while a fraction was irreversibly sorbed. Experimental results and the provided analytical solution help to improve the understanding about reactive transport and the formation of metabolites in dual-porosity media.
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- Bastian Knorr
- Institute of Groundwater Ecology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Department of Hydrogeology and Engineering Geology, AGH University of Science and Technology Cracow, Al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059, Cracow, Poland
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- Institute of Groundwater Ecology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1, 85764, Neuherberg, Germany.
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