Pollution transfer in soil and water environment 1300-OMZGHC-GES
The classes are concentrated on:
• assessment of pollution migration in unsaturated zone by using the GIS programs
• laboratory methods for determining the parameters of pollution migration in groundwater
• knowledge of equations describing mass transport in a saturated zone
• formulation of boundary condition in mass transport models
• superposition of physical processes – advection – dispersion flow model
• usage of stationary calculations of filtration field to assess the transfer of substances in the advection stream
• modeling of reaction of migrating substances with a matrix of rock
• taking into consideration the sorption interaction in terms of equilibrium meaning with using the sorption isotherms
• calculation of decay and biodegradation of dissolved substances in groundwater
• modeling of mass transport in conditions of unsteady filtration
• project of protection zones of groundwater intakes and groundwater reservoirs – legal aspects and the methods of delimitation with usage of modern numerical tools (the GIS programs and Visual Modflow software)
Type of course
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
After completing the classes a student:
- determines the parameters of pollutant migration and projects protection zones of groundwater intakes and reservoirs
- knows the main components of the process of mass transport in groundwater
- explains physical meaning of the mass transport parameters
- describes an aquifer structure system for the numerical calculations
- formulates the differential equations which is an approximation of the equation of mass transport
- describes relations of the delimitated system and the surroundings with boundary conditions
- calculates migration of substances according to the advective model transport
- understands the physical meaning of substance scattering as a result of hydrodynamic dispersion and can integrate this process in the calculation
- explains in a quantitative manner the consequences of sorption interactions in linear and nonlinear models with instantaneous equilibrium
- can include in the calculation a problem of persistence of substances in soil and aquatic environment
- solves the problem of mass transport in non-stationary model
Assessment criteria
After correctly (credited by the teacher) completion of all tasks, student can get final credit of the classes. A final assessment of the classes is based on colloquium with the correction taking into account the quality of completed tasks.
Practical placement
none
Additional information
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