Characterizing pore-scale dissolution of organic immiscible liquid in a poorly-sorted natural porous medium

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 5671-5678

  Russo, A E ^a   Narter, M ^a   Brusseau, M L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLUMN EFFLUENT; CONCENTRATION OF; DISSOLUTION DYNAMICS; EFFLUENT CONCENTRATIONS; ELUTION CURVES; FIRST-ORDER; IMMISCIBLE LIQUIDS; INTERFACIAL AREAS; LARGE PARTICLES; MASS REMOVAL; MASS TRANSFER EQUATIONS; MASS-TRANSFER COEFFICIENT; MICRO-TOMOGRAPHY; NATURAL SAND; ORGANIC LIQUID; POROUS MEDIUM; SCALE MORPHOLOGY; SYNCHROTRON X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY; TRICHLOROETHENES; WATER-FLUSHING;

DISSOLUTION; LIQUIDS; POROUS MATERIALS; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

EFFLUENTS;

TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

DISSOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW FIELD; IMMISCIBILITY; MASS TRANSFER; PARTICLE SIZE; POROUS MEDIUM; TOMOGRAPHY; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOLUTION; EFFLUENT; ELUTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; LIQUID; PARTICLE SIZE; SAND; TRANSPORT MEDIUM; X RAY MICROANALYSIS;

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; SYNCHROTRONS; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; WATER; X-RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY; X-RAYS;

EID: 68049143458     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es803158x     Document Type: Article

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