Soil and groundwater contamination by crude oil spillage: A review and implications for remediation projects in Nigeria

MA Adeniran, MA Oladunjoye, KO Doro - Frontiers in Environmental …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Management of soil and groundwater resources has been recognized as essential to
meeting the sustainable development goals of Agenda 2063 of the African Union. As Africa's …

Pore-scale modeling of solute transport in partially-saturated porous media

A Saeibehrouzi, S Abolfathi, P Denissenko… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Solute transport in partially-saturated porous media plays a key role in multiple applications
across scales, from the migration of nutrients and contaminants in soils to geological energy …

DeePore: A deep learning workflow for rapid and comprehensive characterization of porous materials

A Rabbani, M Babaei, R Shams, Y Da Wang… - Advances in Water …, 2020 - Elsevier
DeePore 2 is a deep learning workflow for rapid estimation of a wide range of porous
material properties based on the binarized micro–tomography images. By combining …

Geometric criteria for the snap‐off of a non‐wetting droplet in pore‐throat channels with rectangular cross‐sections

L Cha, C Xie, Q Feng, M Balhoff - Water Resources Research, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Snap‐off is a phenomenon that occurs when a non‐wetting fluid is displaced by wetting fluid
in pore‐throat channels, leading to the breakup of droplets at the throat. Snap‐off plays a …

Dissolution and remobilization of NAPL in surfactant-enhanced aquifer remediation from microscopic scale simulations

M Ramezanzadeh, M Aminnaji, F Rezanezhad… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, the dissolution and mobilization of non-aqueous phase liquid (NAPL) blobs in
the Surfactant-Enhanced Aquifer Remediation (SEAR) process were upscaled using …

Saturation dependence of mass transfer for solute transport through residual unsaturated porous media

Z Dou, X Zhang, C Zhuang, Y Yang, J Wang… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The residual non-wetting phase in unsaturated porous media varies the aqueous pore
space due to the immiscible characteristics. The varied pore space in turn has significant …

Pore-scale investigation on nonaqueous phase liquid dissolution and mass transfer in 2D and 3D porous media

Y Hu, A Patmonoaji, H Xu, K Kaito, S Matsushita… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Fluid–fluid interphase mass transfer in porous media plays an important role in the
remediation of soil and groundwater contaminated by nonaqueous phase liquid (NAPL). In …

[HTML][HTML] Superpixels pore network extraction for geological tomography images

A Rabbani - Advances in Water Resources, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, a new method of extraction of pore networks from tomography images of
geological porous material has been introduced. Superpixels, a classic method of image …

Effect of pore space stagnant zones on interphase mass transfer in porous media, for two-phase flow conditions

H Gao, AB Tatomir, NK Karadimitriou, H Steeb… - Transport in Porous …, 2023 - Springer
Interphase mass transfer is an important solute transport process in two-phase flow in
porous media. During two-phase flow, hydrodynamically stagnant and flowing zones are …

The migration mechanism of BTEX in single-and double-lithology soil columns under groundwater table fluctuation

J Zheng, Y Yang, J Li, H Zhang, Y Ma - Toxics, 2023 - mdpi.com
The migration of light non-aqueous phase liquids (LNAPLs) trapped in porous media is a
complex phenomenon. Groundwater table fluctuation can not only affect contaminant …