Quantification of colloid retention and release by straining and energy minima in variably saturated porous media

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 8256-8264

  Sang, Wenjing ^a,b   Morales, Verónica L ^c   Zhang, Wei ^d   Stoof, Cathelijne R ^b   Gao, Bin ^e   Schatz, Anna Lottie ^b   Zhang, Yalei ^a   Steenhuis, Tammo S ^b  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERTAY DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTRACTIVE INTERACTIONS; COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; DARCIAN VELOCITIES; SATURATED CONDITIONS; SECONDARY MINIMUMS; UNSATURATED CONDITION; UNSATURATED POROUS MEDIA; VARIABLY SATURATED;

AIR; DEIONIZED WATER; EXPERIMENTS; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; IONIC STRENGTH; PHASE INTERFACES; POROUS MATERIALS;

COLLOIDS;

CAPILLARITY; COLLOID; DARCY LAW; FLUSHING; POREWATER; POROUS MEDIUM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETENTION; SATURATED MEDIUM; UNSATURATED MEDIUM;

ARTICLE; COLLOID; ENERGY; FLOW RATE; IONIC STRENGTH; MOISTURE; POROSITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

COLLOIDS; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; KINETICS; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION;

EID: 84881467804     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es400288c     Document Type: Article

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