Organic contaminant transport and fate in the subsurface: Evolution of knowledge and understanding

HI Essaid, BA Bekins… - Water Resources Research, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Toxic organic contaminants may enter the subsurface as slightly soluble and volatile
nonaqueous phase liquids (NAPLs) or as dissolved solutes resulting in contaminant plumes …

Measurements and models of reactive transport in geological media

B Berkowitz, I Dror, SK Hansen… - Reviews of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Reactive chemical transport plays a key role in geological media across scales, from pore
scale to aquifer scale. Systems can be altered by changes in solution chemistry and a wide …

Reactive transport in porous media: A comparison of model prediction with laboratory visualization

CM Gramling, CF Harvey, LC Meigs - Environmental science & …, 2002 - ACS Publications
Groundwater transport models that accurately describe spreading of nonreactive solutes in
an aquifer can poorly predict concentrations of reactive solutes. The dispersive term in the …

Evaluation of the effects of porous media structure on mixing-controlled reactions using pore-scale modeling and micromodel experiments

TW Willingham, CJ Werth… - Environmental science & …, 2008 - ACS Publications
The objectives of this work were to determine if a pore-scale model could accurately capture
the physical and chemical processes that control transverse mixing and reaction in …

Nernst‐Planck‐based description of transport, coulombic interactions, and geochemical reactions in porous media: Modeling approach and benchmark experiments

M Rolle, R Sprocati, M Masi, B Jin… - Water Resources …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Transport of multicomponent electrolyte solutions in saturated porous media is affected by
the electrostatic interactions between charged species. Such Coulombic interactions couple …

Experimental study of bimolecular reaction kinetics in porous media

DS Raje, V Kapoor - Environmental science & technology, 2000 - ACS Publications
The representation of multispecies chemical transformations into models for porous media
flow and transport is investigated. Since the rate of transformation is dependent on the actual …

Experimental investigation and pore-scale modeling interpretation of compound-specific transverse dispersion in porous media

M Rolle, D Hochstetler, G Chiogna, PK Kitanidis… - Transport in porous …, 2012 - Springer
In this study, we performed multitracer laboratory bench-scale experiments and pore-scale
simulations in different homogeneous saturated porous media (ie, different grain sizes) with …

Modeling bimolecular reactions and transport in porous media via particle tracking

D Ding, DA Benson, A Paster, D Bolster - Advances in Water Resources, 2013 - Elsevier
We use a particle-tracking method to simulate several one-dimensional bimolecular reactive
transport experiments. In our numerical scheme, the reactants are represented by particles …

Effects of incomplete mixing on multicomponent reactive transport

AM Tartakovsky, GD Tartakovsky… - Advances in Water …, 2009 - Elsevier
Darcy-scale description of multicomponent reactive transport can significantly over-predict
the extent of mixing-controlled reactions. Here we present a systematic pore-and Darcy …

Effects of compound-specific dilution on transient transport and solute breakthrough: A pore-scale analysis

M Rolle, PK Kitanidis - Advances in Water Resources, 2014 - Elsevier
This pore-scale modeling study in saturated porous media shows that compound-specific
effects are important not only at steady-state and for the lateral displacement of solutes with …