Transport of non-newtonian suspensions of highly concentrated micro- and nanoscale iron particles in porous media: A modeling approach

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 9062-9068

  Tosco, Tiziana ^a   Sethi, Rajandrea ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPARENT VISCOSITY; CARRIER FLUIDS; COUPLED MODELS; FLOW AND TRANSPORT; FULL SCALE; GROUND WATER REMEDIATION; IRON PARTICLES; MICRO- AND NANOPARTICLES; MODELING APPROACH; NANOSCALE IRON PARTICLES; NON-NEWTONIAN SUSPENSIONS; NUMERICAL MODELS; POROUS MEDIA; POROUS MEDIUM; REVERSIBLE DEPOSITION; SHEAR THINNING FLUIDS; VISCOUS SHEAR; XANTHAN GUM; ZERO-VALENT IRON;

FLUIDS; GROUNDWATER; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; POROUS MATERIALS; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

AGGLOMERATION;

IRON DERIVATIVE; METAL NANOPARTICLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XANTHAN; ZEROVALENT IRON MICROPARTICLE; ZEROVALENT IRON NANOPARTICLE;

AGGREGATION; COLLOID; FLOW MODELING; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; IRON; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; POLYSACCHARIDE; POROUS MEDIUM; REMEDIATION; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; VISCOSITY;

ARTICLE; COLLOID; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS COUPLING REACTION; FLOW CYTOMETRY; IONIC STRENGTH; IRON TRANSPORT; LIQUID; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICOCHEMICAL MODEL; POROSITY; SEDIMENTATION; SHEAR FLOW; SUSPENSION; VISCOSITY; WET DEPOSITION;

COLLOIDS; IRON; KINETICS; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; POROSITY;

EID: 78650276229     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es100868n     Document Type: Article

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