Multiphase flow fields in in-situ air sparging and its effect on remediation

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 99-119

  Jang, Wonyong ^a   Aral, Mustafa M ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Air sparging; Contaminant transport; Multiphase flow; Numerical modeling; Remediation; Soil vapor extraction; Trichloroethylene

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMICS; AIR; ANESTHETICS; CONTAMINATION; FLOW FIELDS; FLOW OF GASES; FLOW PATTERNS; FLUID DYNAMICS; GAS DYNAMICS; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; INJECTION (OIL WELLS); MULTIPHASE FLOW; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; POLLUTION; REMEDIATION; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOILS; THERMOELECTRICITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; UNDERGROUND RESERVOIRS; VAPORS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; WELLS;

AIR INJECTIONS; AIR SPARGING; CONTAMINANT PLUMES; CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT; DESIGN CRITERION; GALERKIN FINITE ELEMENTS; GAS FLOW FIELDS; GAS FLOW PATTERNS; GAS SATURATIONS; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; GROUNDWATER VELOCITIES; IN-SITU; INJECTION RATES; INJECTION WELLS; MULTIPLE INJECTIONS; MULTIPLE WELLS; NUMERICAL MODELING; SINGLE INJECTION WELLS; SITE REMEDIATIONS; SOIL PERMEABILITIES; SOIL VAPOR EXTRACTION; SUBSURFACE ENVIRONMENTS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL DOMAINS;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

AIR SPARGING; BIOREMEDIATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW FIELD; GALERKIN METHOD; GAS FLOW; GROUNDWATER FLOW; MULTIPHASE FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SATURATION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

EID: 59149094630     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-008-9238-4     Document Type: Article

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