Download or read book Diffusive and Advective diffusive Transport Through Saturated and Unsaturated Soils written by Kazem Badv and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Development of a diffusion cell for unsaturated soils written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nos projetos de locais de disposição de resíduos e na avaliação da contaminação do solo e da água subterrânea por substâncias químicas orgânicas e inorgânicas, é essencial que se conheça os mecanismos de transporte de contaminantes por estes meios. São dois os processos básicos no transporte de solutos: advecção e dispersão hidrodinâmica. Advecção é o processo através do qual a água subterrânea carrega consigo os solutos dissolvidos. A quantidade de soluto transportado depende de sua concentração na águasubterrânea, do volume de água fluindo e da velocidade da água subterrânea. O mecanismo de dispersão hidrodinâmica engloba o mecanismo de dispersão mecânica e o transporte pordifusão. A medida que o soluto se movimenta no meio poroso, o processo de dispersão age no sentido de diluir o soluto e reduzir sua concentração. A difusão é o processo através do qual as espécies moleculares e iônicas dissolvidas na água se movem devido a um gradiente de concentração, indo das áreas de maior para menor concentração, mesmo na ausência de fluxo de água subterrânea. O transporte difusivo através de um meio não saturado é mais complicado do que através demeios saturados. Neste caso os parâmetros de transporte podem variar no espaço e no tempo. Portanto, a determinação destes parâmetros no laboratório deve ser feito nas condições mais próximas possíveis das condições in situ. Os processos através dos quais as substâncias se movem através do solo podem ser expressos por modelos matemáticos. Eles se baseiam na integração da equação advectiva-dispersiva utilizando condições de contorno específicas para o sistema de interesse. Entretanto, suaaplicabilidade é limitada devido à falta de parâmetros experimentais confiáveis. Esta tese procura preencher o espaço entre os modelos numéricos e os estudos experimentais. Um novo difusímetro foi desenvolvido para medir o coeficiente de difusão em solos não saturados. O projeto combina o método do reservatório simple, proposto por Rowe et al. (1988), com a técnica de controle osmótico. Foram feitos ensaios com sucção variando entre 0 e 500 kPa. Os solutos utilizados foram cloreto de sódio e cloreto de potássio difundindo através de um amostra relativamente inerte, preparada em laboratório. Os resultados obtidosindicam que a nova técnica proposta funciona bem, sendo entretanto recomendado maiores desenvolvimentos no sistema de controle de sucção, através do uso de instrumentação maisprecisa.
Download or read book Sustainable Construction Materials and Technologies written by Yoon-Moon Chun and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 1756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The construction materials industry is a major user of the world’s resources. While enormous progress has been made towards sustainability, the scope and opportunities for improvements are significant. To further the effort for sustainable development, a conference on Sustainable Construction Materials and Technologies was held at Coventry University, Coventry, U.K., from June 11th - 13th, 2007, to highlight case studies and research on new and innovative ways of achieving sustainability of construction materials and technologies. This book presents selected, important contributions made at the conference. Over 190 papers from over 45 countries were accepted for presentation at the conference, of which approximately 100 selected papers are published in this book. The rest of the papers are published in two supplementary books. Topics covered in this book include: sustainable alternatives to natural sand, stone, and Portland cement in concrete; sustainable use of recyclable resources such as fly ash, ground municipal waste slag, pozzolan, rice-husk ash, silica fume, gypsum plasterboard (drywall), and lime in construction; sustainable mortar, concrete, bricks, blocks, and backfill; the economics and environmental impact of sustainable materials and structures; use of construction and demolition wastes, and organic materials (straw bale, hemp, etc.) in construction; sustainable use of soil, timber, and wood products; and related sustainable construction and rehabilitation technologies.
Download or read book Unsaturated Soils for Asia written by H. Raharjdo and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of articles from the Asian conference UNSAT-ASIA 2000, covering topics such as: historical developments; numerical modelling; suction measurement techniques; permeability and flow; mass transport; and engineering applications.
Download or read book Geoenvironmental Engineering written by Raymond Nen Yong and published by Thomas Telford. This book was released on 2004-06-30 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book contains the proceedings of the 4th Geoenvironmental Engineering Conference, organised by the British Geotechnical Association and Cardiff University’s School of Engineering, held in Stratford-Upon-Avon in June 2004. The theme of the conference was Integrated Management of Groundwater and Contaminated Land. This book is a compilation of peer-reviewed papers; grouped according to the sessions under which they were presented at the conference. Issues associated with Geoenvironmental Engineering continue to be a major preoccupation for Governments, public and private organisations and the general community around the world. The conference brought together people working in industry, academia and the public sector to discuss the latest ideas and developments in Geoenvironmental Engineering and related fields. The papers in these proceedings reflect the work being undertaken across the discipline. This volume is an indispensable source of information on current research and practice in the field of integrated management of groundwater and contaminated land.
Download or read book Handbook of Chemical Mass Transport in the Environment written by Louis J. Thibodeaux and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2010-10-21 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive account of the state of the science of environmental mass transport Edited by Louis J. Thibodeaux and Donald Mackay, renowned experts in this field, the Handbook of Chemical Mass Transport in the Environment covers those processes which are critically important for assessing chemical fate, exposure, and risk. In a comprehensive and authoritative format, this unique handbook provides environmental chemists, geoscientists, engineers, and modelers with the essential capabilities to understand and quantify transport. In addition, it offers a one-stop resource on environmental mass transfer and mass transport coefficient estimation methods for all genres. The book begins by discussing mass transport fundamentals from an environmental perspective. It introduces the concept of mobility — key to environmental fate, since transport must occur prior to any reaction or partitioning within the natural multimedia compartments. The fugacity approach to environmental mass transfer and the conventional approach are examined. This is followed by a description of the individual mass transport processes and the appropriate flux equations required for a quantitative expression. The editors have identified 41 individual processes believed to be the most environmentally significant, which form the basis for the remainder of the book Using a consistent format for easy reference, each chapter: Introduces the specific processes Provides a detailed qualitative description Presents key theoretical mathematical formulations Describes field or laboratory measurements of transport parameters Gives data tables and algorithms for numerical estimates Offers a guide for users familiar with the process who are seeking a direct pathway to obtain the numerical coefficients Presents computed example problems, case studies and/or exercises with worked-through solutions and answers The final chapter presents the editors’ insight into future needs and emerging priorities. Accessible and relevant to a broad range of science and engineering users, this volume captures the state of the transport science and practice in this critical area.
Download or read book Laboratory and Field Testing of Unsaturated Soils written by Alessandro Tarantino and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-12-28 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume details recent global advances in laboratory and field testing of unsaturated soils. Coverage includes mechanical, hydraulic, and geo-environmental testing and applications of unsaturated soil monitoring to engineering behavior of geo-structures.
Download or read book Environmental Geotechnology Meeting Challenges Through Needs based Instrumentation written by Devendra Narain Singh and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2022-01-21 with total page 861 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of rapid and uncontrolled industrialization, its alarming levels of hazardous waste produced, and their negative contribution to the international environmental epidemic of global warming — in addition to the decrease in room to dispose of these wastes safely — have put the pressure for many engineers, researchers, and key decision-makers to find the answers to the constant tussle between progress and sustainability — and quickly.Environmental Geotechnology revisits existing concepts of geotechnical engineering critically, and brings them up to date with new knowledge and current affairs so as to better address and serve today's needs of the professionals. It points out the role and importance of the parameters and mechanisms that govern the interaction of contaminants with geomaterials (soil and rock mass), and also discusses their degradation in the long-run, and the consequences that follow.The book starts from a engineering philosophy that incorporates the influence of environmental effects (both manmade and natural) on geotechnical engineering practices. Its contents are based on geotechnical and environmental engineering studies pertaining to waste management, such as: the safe handling, transportation and disposal of waste, the estimation of waste leakage into the subsurface, its consequences, methods of containment, and the development of schemes to remediate contaminated land. It also proposes innovative strategies for waste management through the utilization of wastes based on a comprehensive characterization.Modelling techniques such as accelerated physical modelling using geotechnical centrifuge, finite-element or difference-based numerical modelling and physico-chemico-mineralogical modelling are discussed in this book to enable the study of the complex (and otherwise slow) process of contaminant-geomaterial interaction.Related Link(s)
Download or read book Vapor Transport in Unsaturated Soil written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experiments were performed to determine the desorption kinetics, diffusion, and advection of two common subsurface VOC contaminants: trichloroethylene (TCE), and chloroform (CF) both individually and as a gas mixtures. Effective diffusion coefficients of TCE were determined in the absence and presence of CF. At high relative pressure the 'effective' distribution coefficient for these vapors decreased and consequently their diffusive transport was enhanced. This result is attributed to the presence of non-linear sorption isotherms for the vapors. Advective transport of TCE and CF also displayed mild gas concentration effects suggesting that the accurate prediction of vapor transport may require consideration of reactions at the gas water interface including vapor condensation and competition. The breakthrough and subsequent desorptive release of TCE vapor from a column of aquifer sand was well predicted by a transport model that employed a Gamma distribution of mass transfer rate constants. Comparisons of experimental data and model predictions have been successfully made at two different gas flow velocities for sand exposed to low (P/Po = 10%) and high (P/Po = 90%) relative pressure of TCE.
Download or read book Barrier Systems for Waste Disposal Facilities written by J.R. Booker and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2004-06-03 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The protection of groundwater and surface water from contamination by the escape of contaminant from waste disposal is now an important consideration in many countries of the world.This book deals with the design of 'barrier systems' which separate waste from the surrounding environment and which are intended to prevent contamination of both ground
Download or read book Geotechnical and Geohydrological Aspects of Waste Management written by Fort Collins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-04 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph contains the proceedings of the 9th Annual Symposium on Geo-aspects of Waste Management, February 1-6, 1987 held at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado.
Download or read book Environmental Geotechnics written by A. Bouazza and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents proceedings from the first Australian-New Zealand Geoenvironment conference. The conference provides a forum for researchers and practitioners in the region to exchange ideas, share information and discuss the effective management of the geoenvironment.
Download or read book Clayey Barrier Systems for Waste Disposal Facilities written by J.R. Booker and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1997-01-09 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors discuss all key aspects of the design of barrier systems, including leachate collection, natural barriers such as clayey aquitards, clay liners, geomembrane and composite liners.
Download or read book Modelling and Simulation of Diffusive Processes written by S.K. Basu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the key issues in the modeling and simulation of diffusive processes from a wide spectrum of different applications across a broad range of disciplines. Features: discusses diffusion and molecular transport in living cells and suspended sediment in open channels; examines the modeling of peristaltic transport of nanofluids, and isotachophoretic separation of ionic samples in microfluidics; reviews thermal characterization of non-homogeneous media and scale-dependent porous dispersion resulting from velocity fluctuations; describes the modeling of nitrogen fate and transport at the sediment-water interface and groundwater flow in unconfined aquifers; investigates two-dimensional solute transport from a varying pulse type point source and futile cycles in metabolic flux modeling; studies contaminant concentration prediction along unsteady groundwater flow and modeling synovial fluid flow in human joints; explores the modeling of soil organic carbon and crop growth simulation.
Download or read book Diffusion in Natural Porous Media written by Peter Grathwohl and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diffusion in Natural Porous Media: Contaminant Transport, Sorption/Desorption and Dissolution Kinetics introduces the general principles of diffusion in the subsurface environment and discusses the implications for the fate and transport of contaminants in soils and groundwater. Emphasis is placed on sorption/desorption and the dissolution kinetics of organic contaminants, both of which are limited by the slow speed of molecular diffusion. Diffusion in Natural Porous Media: Contaminant Transport, Sorption/Desorption and Dissolution Kinetics compiles methods for calculating the diffusion coefficients of organic compounds (in aqueous solution or vapor phase) in natural porous media. The author uses analytical solutions of Fick's 2nd law and some simple numerical models to model diffusive transport under various initial and boundary conditions. A number of these models may be solved using spreadsheets. The book examines sorption/desorption rates of organic compounds in various soils and aquifer materials, and also examines the dissolution kinetics of nonaqueous phase liquids in aquifers, in both the trapped residual phase and in pools. Diffusion in Natural Porous Media: Contaminant Transport, Sorption/Desorption and Dissolution Kinetics concludes with a discussion of the impact of slow diffusion processes on soil and groundwater decontamination and the implications of these processes for groundwater risk assessment.
Download or read book Selected Water Resources Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of Geotechnical Engineering written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
