Variation in time-to-compliance for pump-and-treat remediation of mass transfer-limited aquifers with hydraulic conductivity heterogeneity

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1277-1288

  Güngör Demirci, Gamze ^a,b   Aksoy, Ayşegül ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Correlation length; Heterogeneity; Hydraulic conductivity; Pump and treat; Remediation; Time to compliance

Indexed keywords

CLEAN UP; CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT; CORRELATION LENGTHS; DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS; HETEROGENEITY; PUMP-AND-TREAT; REMEDIATION DESIGN; REMEDIATION SYSTEMS; SIMULATION OPTIMIZATION; SINGLE WELL; TIME-TO-COMPLIANCE;

AQUIFERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROGEOLOGY; MASS TRANSFER; POLLUTION; PUMPS; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; WELLS;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; CLEANUP; CORRELATION; GENETIC ALGORITHM; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HETEROGENEITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MASS TRANSFER; OPTIMIZATION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; PUMP AND TREAT; PUMPING; WELL WATER;

EID: 79959580051     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-010-0800-3     Document Type: Article

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