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Development Of Synthetic Soils For Sorption Mass Transfer Model Validation, Thomas P. De Venoge
Development Of Synthetic Soils For Sorption Mass Transfer Model Validation, Thomas P. De Venoge
Theses and Dissertations
Existing sorption models often fail to describe grain scale sorption because of an inability to define the diffusion domain. A proposed improved model required testing to determine model validity. The testing method used a synthetic media of known geometry such that the distribution of sorption sites was known. Sorption rate data was obtained using batch experiments with the media. Data was used in comparison against model predicted rates. Fined sorption site distributions were compared to real distributions obtained by controlling sorbent geometries. Comparison determined model performance in fitting known distributions. The focus of this study was to (1) determine what …
Investigation Of Sorption Mass Transfer Models Using Synthetic Soils, Karla K. Mika
Investigation Of Sorption Mass Transfer Models Using Synthetic Soils, Karla K. Mika
Theses and Dissertations
Grain-scale sorption mass transfer is an important process that must be considered when predicting clean-up time and choosing remediation techniques for subsurface hazardous waste contamination. Rate-limited sorption is responsible for the rebound effect, where remediated groundwater is recontaminated by desorption. Sorbed contaminants are not available for microbial degradation, and the desorption rate may govern the effectiveness of natural attenuation by biodegradation. Grain-scale sorption nonequilibrium is generally attributed to diffusive transport, either in SOM or in mineral micropores. Typically used sorption mass transfer models either fail to reproduce long-term slow desorption (first-order models), or are based on diffusion in assumed (often …