Bioremediation and Natural Attenuation: Process Fundamentals and Mathematical ModelsJohn Wiley & Sons, 2005 M12 16 - 624 pages A groundbreaking text and professional resource on natural attenuation technology Natural attenuation is rapidly becoming a widely used approach to manage groundwater and soil contamination by hazardous substances in petroleum-product releases and leachate from hazardous waste sites and landfills. This book provides, under one cover, the current methodologies needed by groundwater scientists and engineers in their efforts to evaluate subsurface contamination problems, to estimate risk to human health and ecosystems through mathematical models, and to design and formulate appropriate remediation strategies. Incorporating the authors' extensive backgrounds as educators, researchers, and consultants in environmental biotechnology and hydrogeology, the text emphasizes new concepts and recent advances in the science, including:
Detailed descriptions of fundamental processes, characterization approaches, and analytical and numerical methods tied to relevant real-world applications make Bioremediation and Natural Attenuation: Process Fundamentals and Mathematical Models both a timely course text in hydrogeology and environmental engineering and a valuable reference for anyone in the groundwater or risk assessment professions. |
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... Chemical Properties of Various Organic Compounds 527 Appendix B. Free Energy and Thermodynamic Feasibility of Chemical and Biochemical Reactions 535 Appendix C. Commonly Used Numerical Groundwater Flow and Solute Transport Codes 543 ...
... chemical, mathematical, and physical principles related to the fate and transport of hazardous wastes in aquifer systems, and their connection to natural attenuation and bioremediation engineer- ing. The book is based on the authors ...
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Contents
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4 Fundamentals of Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport Processes | 115 |
5 Fate and Transport Equations and Analytical Models for Natural Attenuation | 169 |
6 Numerical Modeling of Contaminant Transport Transformation and Degradation Processes | 201 |
7 Field and Laboratory Methods to Determine Parameters for Modeling Contaminant Fate and Transport in Groundwater | 283 |
8 Bioremediation Technologies | 351 |
Appendix A Chemical Properties of Various Organic Compounds | 527 |
Appendix B Free Energy and Thermodynamic Feasibility of Chemical and Biochemical Reactions | 535 |
Appendix C Commonly Used Numerical Groundwater Flow and Solute Transport Codes | 543 |
Appendix D Nonparametric Statistical Tests for Determining the Effectiveness of Natural Attenuation | 551 |
Appendix E Critical Values of the Student tDistribution | 557 |
Glossary | 559 |
Index | 577 |
9 Performance Assessment and Demonstration of Bioremediation and Natural Attenuation | 457 |