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 …

Interphase mass transfer between fluids in subsurface formations: A review

B Agaoglu, NK Copty, T Scheytt… - Advances in Water …, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper presents a review of the state-of-the-art on interphase mass transfer between
immiscible fluids in porous media with focus on the factors that have significant influence on …

Dissolution and remobilization of NAPL in surfactant-enhanced aquifer remediation from microscopic scale simulations

M Ramezanzadeh, M Aminnaji, F Rezanezhad… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, the dissolution and mobilization of non-aqueous phase liquid (NAPL) blobs in
the Surfactant-Enhanced Aquifer Remediation (SEAR) process were upscaled using …

Pore-scale simulation of interphase multicomponent mass transfer for subsurface flow

M Graveleau, C Soulaine, HA Tchelepi - Transport in porous media, 2017 - Springer
A simulation framework is proposed to simulate multicomponent multiphase flow in porous
media at the pore scale. It solves equations for the species concentrations in the framework …

Effect of pore space stagnant zones on interphase mass transfer in porous media, for two-phase flow conditions

H Gao, AB Tatomir, NK Karadimitriou, H Steeb… - Transport in Porous …, 2023 - Springer
Interphase mass transfer is an important solute transport process in two-phase flow in
porous media. During two-phase flow, hydrodynamically stagnant and flowing zones are …

Persulfate-based ISCO for field-scale remediation of NAPL-contaminated soil: Column experiments and modeling

G Bolourani, MA Ioannidis, JR Craig… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
An experimental and computational investigation of in situ chemical oxidation (ISCO) of
weathered diesel fuel in soil columns was undertaken to validate a reactive-transport model …

Coupled supercritical CO2 dissolution and water flow in pore-scale micromodels

C Chang, Q Zhou, TJ Kneafsey, M Oostrom… - Advances in Water …, 2019 - Elsevier
Dissolution trapping is one of the most important mechanisms for geological carbon storage
(GCS). Recent laboratory and field experiments have shown non-equilibrium dissolution of …

Effects of pore‐scale heterogeneity on macroscopic NAPL dissolution efficiency: A two‐scale numerical simulation study

M Aminnaji, A Rabbani, V J. Niasar… - Water Resources …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Interphase mass transfer or dissolution coefficient of nonaqueous phase liquids (NAPL) is
an important parameter in predicting the transport of contaminant species in porous media …

Gas exsolution and flow during supersaturated water injection in porous media: I. Pore network modeling

W Zhao, MA Ioannidis - Advances in water resources, 2011 - Elsevier
Degassing and in situ development of a mobile gas saturation take place when an aqueous
phase saturated with gas at a pressure higher than the subsurface pressure is injected in …

Experimentally based pore network modeling of NAPL dissolution process in heterogeneous porous media

S Khasi, M Ramezanzadeh, MH Ghazanfari - Journal of contaminant …, 2020 - Elsevier
Practical designs of non-aqueous phase liquids (NAPLs) remediation strategies require
reliable modeling of interphase mass transfer to predict the retraction of NAPL during …