Michigan Soil Vapor Extraction Remediation (MISER) Model

Michigan Soil Vapor Extraction Remediation (MISER) Model
Author: Linda M. Abriola
Publisher:
Total Pages: 4
Release: 1997
Genre: Computer simulation
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Soil vapor extraction (SVE) and bioventing (BV) are proven strategies for remediation of unsaturated zone soils. Mathematical models are powerful tools that can be used to integrate and quantify the interaction of physical, chemical, and biological processes occurring in field scale SVE/VB systems. This report describes the conceptual and mathematical formulation, numerical implementation, and application of a multiphase, multicomponent, biodegradation model designed to simulate physical, chemical, and biological interactions occurring in field scale SVE and BV systems. The model, the Michigan Soil Vapor Extraction Remediation Model (MISER), is two-dimensional and may be run in a cross-sectional or axisymmetric mode. Phase and constituent mass balance equations are discretized with a standard Galerkin finite element approach using linear triangular elements. A modular, set-iterative solution algorithm is employed. Features of the model include: the ability to simulate multiphase gas and aqueous fluid flow; the simulation of multicomponent transport processes, incorporation of rate-limited interphase mass transfer for volatilization and dissolution of an entrapped organic liquid, volatilization and sorption of aqueous phase constituents, and biophase update; and the simulation of multicomponent biodegradation kinetics and microbial population dynamics. A complete description of the computer code, implementation procedures, and example SVE and BV simulations is included.

Michigan Soil Vapor Extraction Remediation Model

Michigan Soil Vapor Extraction Remediation Model
Author: U. S. Environmental Protection Agency
Publisher: BiblioGov
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2013-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781289212117

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was introduced on December 2, 1970 by President Richard Nixon. The agency is charged with protecting human health and the environment, by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. The EPA's struggle to protect health and the environment is seen through each of its official publications. These publications outline new policies, detail problems with enforcing laws, document the need for new legislation, and describe new tactics to use to solve these issues. This collection of publications ranges from historic documents to reports released in the new millennium, and features works like: Bicycle for a Better Environment, Health Effects of Increasing Sulfur Oxides Emissions Draft, and Women and Environmental Health.

A Numerical Investigation of Metabolic Reductive Dechlorination in DNAPL Source Zones

A Numerical Investigation of Metabolic Reductive Dechlorination in DNAPL Source Zones
Author: John Anthony Christ
Publisher:
Total Pages: 632
Release: 2005
Genre:
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Among the most intractable environmental remediation problems are those involving the release of dense non-aqueous phase liquids (DNAPLs), such as chlorinated solvents, to the subsurface. Research efforts have focused on the use of numerical models to investigate reductions in contaminant concentrations due to partial mass removal and improvements in the performance of complementary source zone remediation technologies. Previous numerical investigations, however, have been limited to two-dimensional systems. Furthermore, a lack of models capable of simulating the most promising complementary technology, metabolic reductive dechlorination, has limited its application. This work developed and applied compositional multiphase numerical simulators to examine the influence of dimensionality (two-dimensions versus three-dimensions) on DNAPL source zone simulations and to investigate the benefits of stimulating metabolic reductive dechlorination at a chlorinated ethene-DNAPL contaminated site. Results from the dimensionality investigation showed that the simulation of DNAPL migration, entrapment, and dissolution in two dimensions provided reasonable approximations to the behavior simulated in three dimensions. Commonly employed saturation distribution and mass recovery metrics were approximately equivalent. Flux- averaged concentrations simulated in two dimensions, however, tended to be three to four times higher than those simulated in three dimensions. This difference was attributed to dilution at the down gradient boundary. An alternative metric, mass flux reduction, however, yielded better agreement.