Does water content or flow rate control colloid transport in unsaturated porous media?

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 3791-3799

  Knappenberger, Thorsten ^a   Flury, Markus ^a   Mattson, Earl D ^b   Harsh, James B ^c  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILLED POLYMERS; FLOW RATE; POROUS MATERIALS; WATER CONTENT;

CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT; CRITICAL WATER CONTENT; DIFFERENT WATER CONTENTS; NEGATIVELY CHARGED; POLYSTYRENE COLLOID; SECONDARY ENERGY MINIMA; UNSATURATED POROUS MEDIA; WATER FILM THICKNESS;

COLLOIDS;

NITRATE; POLYSTYRENE;

COLLOID; FLOW PATTERN; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POROUS MEDIUM; SOIL POLLUTION; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; UNSATURATED MEDIUM; WATER CONTENT;

ARTICLE; COLLOID; FLOW RATE; WATER CONTENT;

COLLOIDS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITRATES; POROSITY; RHEOLOGY; WATER; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84897540364     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es404705d     Document Type: Article

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