Physical modeling of air flow during air sparging remediation

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3883-3888

  Hu, Liming ^a   Wu, Xiaofeng ^a   Liu, Yan ^a   Meegoda, Jay N ^b   Gao, Shengyan ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR FLOW; AIR INJECTION; AIR SPARGING; CENTRIFUGAL TEST; DIFFERENT SIZES; GROUND WATER REMEDIATION; HORIZONTAL EXPANSION; INJECTION PRESSURES; PHYSICAL MODELING; POROUS MEDIA; SATURATED SOILS; SIZE AND SHAPE; TEST RESULTS; THEORETICAL MODELING; THEORETICAL VALUES; TWO-COMPONENT; VERTICAL LINES; ZONE OF INFLUENCES;

AIR; CENTRIFUGATION; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MODELS; POLLUTION; POROUS MATERIALS; PRESSURE EFFECTS; REMEDIATION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

PARTICLE SIZE;

AIRFLOW; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MODEL TEST; POROUS MEDIUM; REMEDIATION; SATURATED MEDIUM; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIRFLOW; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICAL MODEL; SOIL POLLUTION; SPARGING; WATER CONTAMINATION;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 77952471410     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es903853v     Document Type: Article

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