Simulating the injection of micellar solutions to recover diesel in a sand column

Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

Volumn 103, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 99-108

  Bernardez, Letícia A ^a   Therrien, René ^a   Lefebvre, René ^b   Martel, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contamination; Diesel; Micellar solution; Modeling; NAPLs; Recovery

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT APPROACHES; COMPONENT SEGREGATIONS; COMPOSITIONAL SIMULATORS; DIESEL; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LOCAL PHASE EQUILIBRIUMS; MICELLAR SOLUTION; MODELING; NAPLS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; PHASE TRANSFERS; PORE VOLUMES; RESIDUAL SATURATIONS; SAND COLUMNS; SINGLE COMPONENTS; SOIL COLUMNS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENHANCED RECOVERY; MICROEMULSIONS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; RECOVERY; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE SONAR;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

DIESEL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LABORATORY METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTITIONING; SAND; SATURATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GASOLINE; MICELLES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SILICON DIOXIDE; SOLUTIONS; VISCOSITY;

EID: 58149161708     PISSN: 01697722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2008.09.009     Document Type: Article

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