A chromate-contaminated site in southern Switzerland - Part 2: Reactive transport modeling to optimize remediation options

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 655-662

  Wanner, Christoph ^a   Eggenberger, Urs ^a   Mäder, Urs ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2-D MODEL; COMPUTER CODES; CONCEPTUAL SITE MODELS; CONSTRAINED FLOW; CR ISOTOPES; CR REDUCTIONS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; MONITORED NATURAL ATTENUATION; NATURALLY OCCURRING; REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODELING; REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODELS; REMEDIATION STRATEGIES; SITE CHARACTERIZATION; SITE REMEDIATION; SOLID ORGANIC MATTER; SWITZERLAND; TIME-PERIODS; TRANSPORT PROCESS; VALUE DISTRIBUTION;

CHROMATES; EXCAVATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; ISOTOPES; MODELS; POLLUTION; SOILS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

CALIBRATION; CHROMATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEAVY METAL; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MINERALOGY; MONITORING; NUMERICAL MODEL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; OPTIMIZATION; PLUME; POLLUTION EFFECT; REACTION KINETICS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL REMEDIATION; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84856601098     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2011.11.008     Document Type: Article

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