Open AccessDescription and Verification of the Contaminat Transport Models in Groundwater (Theory And Practice)
Author(s) -
Andrzej Aniszewski
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
archives of environmental protection
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2083-4772
pISSN - 2083-4810
DOI - 10.2478/aep-2013-0021
Subject(s) - piezometer , groundwater , aquifer , dimensionless quantity , contamination , environmental science , soil science , environmental chemistry , biochemical engineering , biological system , chemistry , thermodynamics , geotechnical engineering , geology , engineering , ecology , physics , biology
This paper presents a general overview of 2D mathematical models for both the inorganic and the organic contaminants moving in an aquifer, taking into consideration the most important processes that occur in the ground. These processes affect, to a different extent, the concentration reduction values for the contaminants moving in a groundwater. In this analysis, the following processes have been taken into consideration: reversible physical non-linear adsorption, chemical and biological reactions (as biodegradation/biological denitrification) and radioactive decay (for moving radionuclides). Based on these 2D contaminant transport models it has been possible to calculate numerically the dimensionless concentration values with and without all the chosen processes in relation to both the chosen natural site (piezometers) and the chosen contaminants.In this paper, it has also been possible to compare all the numerically calculated concentration values to the measured concentration ones (in the chosen earlier piezometers) in relation to both the new unpublished measurement series of May 1982 and the new set of parameters used in these 2D contaminant transport models (as practical verification of these models).