Author:
Sleep Brent E,McClure Paul D
Abstract
Column experiments were performed at 2225°, 50°, and 92°C to study the effect of temperature on the sorption of toluene, perchloroethylene, and naphthalene to a silty gravel-till aquifer material. A one-dimensional numerical model incorporating kinetic adsorption with gamma-distributed rate constants was developed and fit to the data. As temperature was increased from 2225° to 90°C, sorption coefficients decreased by 35, 40, and 60% for toluene, perchloroethylene, and naphthalene, respectively. The means and variances of the gamma distributions for sorption rate constants both increased as temperature increased. The increases in variance were attributed to the short contact times of the experiments and the increased sorption rates at higher temperatures. The decreases in sorption coefficients and increases in sorption rate constants as temperature is increased suggest that thermal remediation techniques such as hot-water and steam flushing may accelerate the removal of sorbed organic soil contamination.Key words: sorption, nonequilibrium, temperature dependence, thermal remediation.
Publisher
Canadian Science Publishing
Subject
Civil and Structural Engineering,Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology
Cited by
20 articles.
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