LNAPL in fine-grained soils: Conceptualization of saturation, distribution, recovery, and their modeling

Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 100-112

  Adamski, Mark ^a   Kremesec, Victor ^a,b,c   Kolhatkar, Ravi ^a,d   Pearson, Chris ^e,f   Rowan, Beth ^g,h  

^a BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

^b Advisory Committee for the API Soils Groundwater Technical Force

^c Technical Advisory Committee   (United States)

^d API Soil and Groundwater Technical Task Force

^e ThermoRetec Corporation   (United States)

^f Building 22 ^*  (United States)

^g RMT Inc   (United States)

^h RMT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEEDBACK; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); WATER WELLS;

FINE-GRAINED SOIL (FGS); HOMOGENEITY; LIGHT NON-AQUEOUS PHASE LIQUID (LNAPL);

SOILS;

FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUID; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATURATION; SOIL POLLUTION;

EID: 16444386243     PISSN: 10693629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6592.2005.0005.x     Document Type: Article

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