Air sparging: Air-water mass transfer coefficients

Water Resources Research

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 3245-3253

  Braida, Washington J ^a   Ong, Say Kee ^a  

^a Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR SPARGING; AIR-WATER INTERACTION; AQUIFER; DIFFUSIVITY; MASS TRANSFER; REMEDIATION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

GASES; MASS TRANSFER; OCEANOGRAPHY; PARTICLE SIZE; PHASE INTERFACES; POROUS MATERIALS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

AIR WATER INTERFACES; AIR-WATER MASS TRANSFER; FIELD CONDITIONS; GAS-PHASE MASS TRANSFER; HENRY'S LAW CONSTANT; MEAN PARTICLE SIZE; SHERWOOD NUMBERS; TORTUOSITY FACTOR;

AIR;

EID: 0032411084     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98WR02533     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Armstrong, J. E., J. Croise, and V. Kaleris, Simulation of rate-limiting processes controlling the vapour extraction of trichloroethylene in sandy soils, in Proceedings of the International Conference on the Environment and Geotechnics, pp. 327-334, Ecole Natl. des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris, 1993.
2. Baehr, A. L., G. E. Hoag and C. Marley, Removing volatile contaminants from the unsaturated zone by inducing advective air phase transport, J. Contam. Hydrol. 4, 1-26, 1989.
3. Braida, W. J., Mass transfer mechanisms in air sparging systems, Ph.D. dissertation, Iowa State Univ., Ames, 1997.
4. Brown, R. A., R. J. Hicks, and P. M. Hicks, Use of air sparging for in situ bioremediation, in Air Sparging for Site Remediation, edited by R. E. Hinchee, pp. 38-55, Lewis, Boca Raton, Fla., 1994.
5. Brusseau, M. L., Transport of organic chemicals by gas advection in structured or heterogeneous porous media: Development of a model and application to column experiments, Water Resour. Res., 27(12), 3189-3199, 1991.
6. Chihacek, L. J., and J. M. Bremmer, A simplified ethylene glycol monoethyl ether procedure for assessment of soil surface area, Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 43, 821-822, 1979.
7. Cho, H. J., and P. Jaffe, The volatilization of organic compounds in unsaturated porous media during infiltration, J. Contam. Hydrol., 6, 387-410, 1990.
8. Driscoll, F. G., Groundwater and Wells, 2nd ed., Johnson Filtration Syst., St. Paul, Minn., 1986.
9. Fisher, U., R. Schulin, M. Keller, and F. Stauffer, Experimental and numerical investigation of soil vapor extraction, Water Resour. Res., 32(12), 3413-3427, 1996.
10. Freeze, R. A., and J. A. Cherry, Groundwater, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N. J., 1979.
11. Gierke, J. S., N. J. Hultzer, and D. B. McKenzie, Vapor transport in columns of unsaturated soil and implications for vapor extraction, Water Resour. Res., 28(2), 323-335, 1992.
12. Hein, G. L., N. J. Hulzler, and J. S. Gierke, Quantification of the mechanisms controlling the removal rate of volatile contaminants by air sparging, in Proceedings of the 1994 National Conference on Environmental Engineering, edited by J. N. Ryan and M. Edwards, pp. 556-563, Am. Soc. of Civ. Eng., New York, 1994.
13. IBM Corporation, System/360 Continuous System Modeling Program User's Manual, Program No. 360A-CX, 5th ed., Tech. Publ. Dep., White Plains, N. Y., 1972.
14. Ji, W., Air sparging: Experimental and theoretical analysis of flow and numerical modeling of mass transfer, Ph.D. dissertation, 154 pp., Univ. of Conn., Storrs, 1994.
15. Ji, W., A. Dahamani, D. P. Ahlfeld, J. D. Lin, and E. Hill, Laboratory study of air sparging: Air flow visualization, Ground Water Monit. Rem., 13(4), 115-126, 1993.
16. Lewis, W. K., and W. G. Whitman, Principles of gas adsorption, Ind. Eng. Chem., 16, 1215-1220, 1924.
17. Lyman, W. J., W. F. Reehl, and D. H. Rosemblatt, Handbook of Chemical Properties Estimation Methods, Am. Chem. Soc., Washington, D. C., 1990.
18. Mendoza, C., and E. O. Frind, Advective-dispersive transport of dense organic vapors in the unsaturatcd zone, I, Model development, Water Resour. Res., 26(3), 379-387, 1990.
19. Nelson, D. W., and L. E. Sommers, Total carbon, organic carbon, and organic matter, in Methods of Soil Analysis, part 2, Chemical and Microbiological Properties, 2nd ed., edited by A. L. Page, pp. 570-571, Soil Sci. Soc. of Am., Madison, Wis., 1982.
20. Ong, S. K., and L. W. Lion, Effects of soil properties and moisture on the sorption of TCE vapor, Water Res., 25(1), 29-36, 1991.
21. Perry, R. H., and C. H. Chilton, Chemical Engineer's Handbook, 5th ed., pp. 3.231-3.234, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1978.
22. SAS Institute Inc., SAS® Software: Changes and Enhancements, Release 6.10, Carey, N. C., 1993.
23. Schaefer, C. E., R. R. Arands, H. A. van der Sloot, and D. S. Kosson, Prediction and experimental validation of liquid-phase diffusion resistance in unsaturated soils, J. Contam. Hydrol., 20, 145-166, 1995.
24. Sleep, B. E., and J. F. Sykes, Modeling the transport of volatile organics in variable saturated media, Water Resour. Res., 25(1), 81-92, 1989.
25. Szatkowski, A., P. T. Imhoff, and C. T. Miller, Development of a correlation for aqueous-vapor phase mass transfer in porous media, J. Contain. Hydrol., 18, 85-106, 1995.
26. Treybal, R. E., Mass Transfer Operations, 2nd ed., pp. 29-31, McGraw-Hill Kogakusha, Tokyo, 1968.
27. Wilkins, M. D., L. M. Abriola, and K. D. Pennel, An experimental investigation of rate-limited nonaqueous volatilization in unsaturated porous media: Steady state mass transfer, Water Resour. Res., 31(9), 2159-2172, 1995.