Experimental Determination of Carbon Tetrachloride Mass Fluxes into Groundwater from Vadose Zone Sources
EMSL Project ID
42490
Abstract
The Department of Energy (DOE) has recently funded a numerical and experimental project in their Environmental Management (EM) Science and Technology Roadmap program with the goal to improve understanding of VOC mass fluxes from vadose zone sources to the groundwater. Researchers in this project have outlined the theoretical framework and shortcomings in the understanding of the pertinent processes. The shortcomings in understanding include mass transfer from the gas to aqueous phase near in/near the capillary fringe and source strength of multi-component NAPL sources as a function of time. The intermediate-scale experimental work outlined in this EMSL proposal is part of this DOE-EM project. The objectives of the experiments are to improve the understanding of mass fluxes from vadose zone sources into the groundwater and to provide data sets to test and verify the STOMP simulator.
Project Details
Project type
Exploratory Research
Start Date
2010-11-05
End Date
2011-11-06
Status
Closed
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