A general mathematical model for chemical-enhanced flushing of soil contaminated by organic compounds

Water Resources Research

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1635-1648

  Ji, Wei ^a   Brusseau, Mark L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODEL; REMEDIATION; SOIL;

ORGANIC COMPOUND; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL REMEDIATION;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; POROUS MATERIALS; REMEDIATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLUBILITY; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

COMPLEXING AGENTS; CONTAMINANT REMOVAL; HYDROPHOBIC ORGANIC COMPOUND; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MASTER EQUATIONS; MODE OF ACTION; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTERS; REMEDIATION TECHNOLOGIES;

CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS;

EID: 0031839348     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98WR01040     Document Type: Article

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