Improving the sweeping efficiency of permanganate into low permeable zones to treat TCE: Experimental results and model development

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 22, 2013, Pages 13031-13038

  Chokejaroenrat, Chanat ^a,b   Kananizadeh, Negin ^a   Sakulthaew, Chainarong ^c,d   Comfort, Steve ^c   Li, Yusong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b SURANAREE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^d KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRINKMAN EQUATION; MASS REMOVAL; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; MULTIPLE SPECIES; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS; PORE VOLUME; REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODELING; TRANSPORT EXPERIMENTS;

DISSOLUTION; EFFICIENCY; NON NEWTONIAN FLOW; NON NEWTONIAN LIQUIDS;

MANGANESE OXIDE;

CARBON 14; INORGANIC SALT; PERMANGANATE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XANTHAN; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; CARBON; MANGANESE DERIVATIVE; OXIDE; PERMANGANIC ACID; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW MODELING; OXIDATION; PERMEABILITY; POLLUTION CONTROL; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; FLOW KINETICS; LOW PERMEABLE ZONE; MASS; OXIDATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VISCOSITY; WATER TREATMENT; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PERMEABILITY; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OXIDES; PERMEABILITY; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; SOLUTIONS; TIME FACTORS; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84888273970     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es403150x     Document Type: Article

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