Using phase diagrams to predict the performance of cosolvent floods for NAPL remediation

Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 94-102

  Falta, Ronald W ^a,b  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLS; GRAPH THEORY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONE DIMENSIONAL; PHASE DIAGRAMS; REMEDIATION; SOLUBILITY; SOLVENTS;

COSOLVENT FLOODS; FRACTIONAL FLOW THEORY; NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUID REMEDIATION;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

ALCOHOL; NON-AQUEOUS PHASE LIQUID; REMEDIATION; RESERVOIR FLOODING;

EID: 0032100383     PISSN: 10693629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6592.1998.tb00733.x     Document Type: Article

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