Impact of wettability on pore-scale characteristics of residual nonaqueous phase liquids

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 4796-4801

  Al Raoush, Riyadh I ^a  

^a SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH RESOLUTION; INTERFACIAL AREAS; LARGE PORES; MASS FRACTION; MEAN-GRAIN SIZE; NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUIDS; POROUS MEDIA; RESIDUAL NAPL; SAND SYSTEMS; SATURATED POROUS MEDIA; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; SPHERICITY INDICES; SYNCHROTRON X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE PROCESSING; WET SURFACES;

IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LIQUIDS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

POROUS MATERIALS;

ALGORITHM; GRAIN SIZE; IMAGE PROCESSING; NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUID; POROUS MEDIUM; SATURATION; TOMOGRAPHY; WETTABILITY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; GRAIN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIQUID; MASS; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; POROSITY; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYNCHROTRON; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; WETTABILITY; X RAY;

ALGORITHMS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; SYNCHROTRONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY; WATER; WETTABILITY;

EID: 67649954720     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es802566s     Document Type: Article

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