Gravitational settling effects on unit cell predictions of colloidal retention in porous media in the absence of energy barriers

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 8306-8312

  Ma, Huilian ^a   Pazmino, Eddy F ^a   Johnson, William P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDAL FILTRATION; COLLOIDAL RETENTION; DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS; DIFFERENT SIZES; EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION; FLOW DIRECTION; FLOW ORIENTATIONS; GRAVITATIONAL SETTLINGS; LABORATORY COLUMNS; MODEL SIMULATION; MODEL SURFACE; PORE WATERS; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; UNIT CELL MODELS; UNIT CELLS;

CELLS; COLLOID CHEMISTRY; COLLOIDS; CONTRAST MEDIA; ENERGY BARRIERS; EXPERIMENTS; FORECASTING; POROUS MATERIALS; SPHERES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

COLLOID; FILTRATION; FLOW MODELING; GRAVITY FIELD; LABORATORY METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; POREWATER; POROUS MEDIUM; PREDICTION; RETENTION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; BIOACCUMULATION; COLLOID; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW RATE; GRAVITATIONAL SETTLING; GRAVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR MODEL; MOLECULAR SIZE; OBSERVATION; POROSITY; SUSPENSION; THEORETICAL MODEL; VELOCITY;

COLLOIDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAVITATION; KINETICS; MICROSPHERES; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; RHEOLOGY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 80053404478     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es200696x     Document Type: Article

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