Scale-dependent desorption of uranium from contaminated subsurface sediments

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Liu, Chongxuan ^a   Zachara, John M ^a   Qafoku, Nikolla P ^a   Wang, Zheming ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDS; ACTINIDES; COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL); COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTAMINATION; DESORPTION; KINETIC THEORY; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MASS TRANSFER; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RATE CONSTANTS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SURFACE REACTIONS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; TRITIUM; URANIUM; VEGETATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

BREAK-THROUGH CURVES; COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; CONTAMINATED SEDIMENTS; DESORPTION KINETICS; DOMAIN PROPERTIES; FINE-GRAINED MATERIALS; GEOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; HANFORD; HANFORD SITE; IMMOBILE POROSITY; INNER DIAMETER; INTERMITTENT FLOWS; KINETIC MODELLING; MASS FRACTIONS; MASS PERCENTAGE; MODEL BASED; MODELING APPROACHES; MULTICOMPONENT KINETIC MODEL; NONEQUILIBRIUM BEHAVIOR; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; PHYSICAL TRANSPORT; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODELLING; SCALE DEPENDENCE; SUBSURFACE SEDIMENTS; SURFACE COMPLEXATION; TRANSFER PROPERTIES; U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY); WASHINGTON;

URANIUM COMPOUNDS;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; DESORPTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOCHEMISTRY; MASS TRANSFER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; POROSITY; REACTION KINETICS; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; URANIUM;

HANFORD; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 53849083467     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006478     Document Type: Article

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