Effects of Flow Velocity and Nonionic Surfactant on Colloid Straining in Saturated Porous Media Under Unfavorable Conditions

Transport in Porous Media

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 193-208

  Du, Yichun ^a   Shen, Chongyang ^a   Zhang, Hongyan ^a   Huang, Yuanfang ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Colloid; Flow velocity; Nonionic surfactant; Porous media; Straining

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; CARBOXYLATION; COLLOIDS; DEIONIZED WATER; FLOW VELOCITY; GROUNDWATER; NONIONIC SURFACTANTS; POROUS MATERIALS; SOLS; VELOCITY;

BIO-COLLOIDS; CHEMICAL CONDITIONS; COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; MOBILE PARTICLE; MODEL COLLOIDS; POLYSTYRENE LATEX MICROSPHERES; SATURATED POROUS MEDIA; STRAINING;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

COLLOID; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FLOW VELOCITY; POROUS MEDIUM; SURFACTANT;

PROTOZOA;

EID: 84876067768     PISSN: 01693913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11242-013-0140-3     Document Type: Article

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