Colloid transport with wetting fronts: Interactive effects of solution surface tension and ionic strength

Water Research

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1270-1278

  Zhuang, Jie ^a   Goeppert, Nadine ^b   Tu, Ching ^a   McCarthy, John ^a   Perfect, Edmund ^a   McKay, Larry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Capillary force; Colloid transport; Horizontal column; Ionic strength; Surface tension; Transient unsaturated flow

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; DEPOSITION; PHASE INTERFACES; POROUS MATERIALS; SURFACE TENSION; WETTING;

CAPILLARY FORCE; COLLOID DEPOSITION; COLLOID TRANSPORT; CONTAMINANT MIGRATION; HORIZONTAL COLUMN; INTERACTIVE EFFECT; SOLUTION SURFACE TENSION; TRANSIENT UNSATURATED FLOW; VADOSE ZONE; WETTING FRONTS;

IONIC STRENGTH;

LATEX; MICROSPHERE;

CAPILLARY FRINGE; CAPILLARY PRESSURE; COLLOID; DEPOSITION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IONIC COMPOSITION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POROUS MEDIUM; STEADY FLOW; SURFACE TENSION; TRANSIENT FLOW; TRANSPORT PROCESS; UNSATURATED FLOW; VADOSE ZONE;

ARTICLE; COLLOID; HYDRODYNAMICS; IONIC STRENGTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAND; SURFACE TENSION; TRANSPORT KINETICS; WATER TRANSPORT; ZETA POTENTIAL;

EID: 76749116235     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2009.12.012     Document Type: Article

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