Colloid-facilitated transport of strongly sorbing contaminants in natural porous media: Mathematical modeling and laboratory column experiments

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 6378-6386

  Grolimund, Daniel ^a   Borkovec, Michal ^b  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; CALCIUM; IMPURITIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS; REACTION KINETICS; SALINE WATER; SODIUM;

COLLOID PARTICLES; DIVALENT IONS; SORBING CONTAMINANTS; SUBSURFACE MATERIALS;

COLLOIDS;

CALCIUM ION; CATION; GROUND WATER; LEAD; ORGANIC CARBON; SEA WATER; SODIUM ION;

COLLOID; FLOW VELOCITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POROUS MEDIUM;

ADSORPTION; AQUIFER; ARTICLE; ATOMIC ABSORPTION SPECTROMETRY; CATION EXCHANGE; COLLOID; EFFLUENT; KINETICS; LABORATORY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT; SOIL POLLUTION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; VELOCITY; WATER CONTAMINATION;

ADSORPTION; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CALCIUM; CATIONS; COLLOIDS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; KINETICS; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; SODIUM; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 24644444613     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es050207y     Document Type: Article

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