Colloid straining within water-saturated porous media: Effects of colloid size nonuniformity

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Xu, Shangping ^b   Saiers, James E ^a  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIDISPERSE SUSPENSION; CHEMICAL CONDITIONS; COLLOID SIZE; COLLOIDAL PARTICLE; COLLOIDAL SUSPENSIONS; COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; DOMINANT MECHANISM; EMPIRICAL EXPRESSION; FITTING PARAMETERS; MICROSPHERE SIZES; MONODISPERSE; NONUNIFORM; NONUNIFORMITY; PARAMETERS ESTIMATED; PORE SPACE; POROUS MEDIA; PREDICTOR VARIABLES; QUARTZ SAND; SAND GRAINS; SATURATED POROUS MEDIA; TECHNICAL NOTES;

COLLOID CHEMISTRY; EXPERIMENTS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROGEOLOGY; MICROSPHERES; OXIDE MINERALS; POROUS MATERIALS; QUARTZ; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

COLLOID; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IMMOBILIZATION; PORE SPACE; POROUS MEDIUM; QUARTZ; REACTION KINETICS; SAND; SATURATION; WATER CHEMISTRY;

EID: 67650305185     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007258     Document Type: Article

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30. J. E. Saiers, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, 205 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511, USA. (james.saiers@yale. edu)
31. S. Xu, Department of Geosciences, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA.