Organic contaminant transport and fate in the subsurface: Evolution of knowledge and understanding

HI Essaid, BA Bekins… - Water Resources Research, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Toxic organic contaminants may enter the subsurface as slightly soluble and volatile
nonaqueous phase liquids (NAPLs) or as dissolved solutes resulting in contaminant plumes …

A review of NAPL source zone remediation efficiency and the mass flux approach

K Soga, JWE Page, TH Illangasekare - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2004 - Elsevier
A number of previous studies are reviewed to examine the actual reduction of NAPL from
source zones and the effectiveness of the specific technique of remediation used at sites …

Colloid particle size‐dependent dispersivity

CV Chrysikopoulos… - Water Resources …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Laboratory and field studies have demonstrated that dispersion coefficients evaluated by
fitting advection‐dispersion transport models to nonreactive tracer breakthrough curves do …

Laboratory-scale in situ chemical oxidation of a perchloroethylene pool using permanganate

LK MacKinnon, NR Thomson - Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 2002 - Elsevier
In situ chemical oxidation (ISCO) is an emerging technology for the destruction of some
chlorinated solvents present in subsurface environments. A laboratory investigation using a …

Groundwater contaminant flux reduction resulting from nonaqueous phase liquid mass reduction

JW Jawitz, AD Fure, GG Demmy… - Water Resources …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
This work presents a stream tube–based analytical approach to evaluate reduction in
groundwater contaminant flux resulting from partial mass reduction in a nonaqueous phase …

Simple screening models of NAPL dissolution in the subsurface

J Zhu, JF Sykes - Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 2004 - Elsevier
Three simple screening models of nonaqueous phase liquid (NAPL) dissolution in the
subsurface are proposed based on the NAPL mass conservation and the assumption of …

An empirical model for the evaluation of the dissolution rate from a DNAPL-contaminated area

A Luciano, G Mancini, V Torretta, P Viotti - Environmental Science and …, 2018 - Springer
This paper investigates dynamic variation in the morphologic distribution of dense non-
aqueous phase liquids (DNAPLs), which take into account the coupled mass transfer …

A review of multidimensional, multifluid intermediate‐scale experiments: Nonaqueous phase liquid dissolution and enhanced remediation

M Oostrom, JH Dane, TW Wietsma - Vadose Zone Journal, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
A review is presented of original multidimensional, intermediate‐scale experiments
involving NAPLs (nonaqueous phase liquids). The experimental approach at this scale can …

Slow gas expansion in saturated natural porous media by gas injection and partitioning with non-aqueous phase liquids

KG Mumford, SE Dickson, JE Smith - Advances in water resources, 2009 - Elsevier
The partitioning of volatile non-aqueous phase liquid (NAPL) compounds to a discontinuous
gas phase can result in the expansion of that gas phase, and the resulting gas flow can …

Contaminants at former manufactured gas plants: sources, properties, and processes

M Wehrer, T Rennert, T Mansfeldt… - Critical reviews in …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
In the course of industrialization in the 19th century, manufactured gas plant sites were built
in almost every larger town in Europe and the United States. Organic and inorganic …