A lumped parameter approach to model the treatment of organic contaminants by a granular iron filled fracture

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 624-638

  Cai, Zuansi ^a   Thomson, Neil R ^b   Wilson, Ryan D ^a   Oswald, Sascha E ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Degradation; Fracture; Lumped parameter; Modelling; Permeable reactive barrier; Zero valent iron

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGRADATION; FRACTURE; GRANULAR MATERIALS; IMPURITIES; IRON; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS;

LUMPED PARAMETER; ORGANIC CONTAMINANT; PERMEABLE REACTIVE BARRIER; ZERO VALENT IRON;

WATER TREATMENT;

AQUIFERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEGRADATION; FRACTURE; GRANULAR MATERIALS; IMPURITIES; IRON; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS; WATER TREATMENT;

FRACTURED MEDIUM; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PARAMETERIZATION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; REACTIVE BARRIER;

EID: 31644451106     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2005.07.004     Document Type: Article

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