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- Title
A coupled transport and reaction model for long column experiments simulating bank filtration.
- Authors
Horner, Christoph; Holzbecher, Ekkehard; Nützmann, Gunnar
- Abstract
Within the scope of the interdisciplinary Natural and Artificial Systems for Recharge and Infiltration research project dealing with riverbank filtration processes at the Berlin water works, a semi-technical column experiment has been ongoing since January 2003. Here, a 30 m long soil column is infiltrated with surface water sampled from Lake Tegel (Berlin, Germany) under saturated flow conditions. Changes in pore water hydrochemistry sampled on 21 non-equidistant distributed points are verified by coupled transport and reaction modelling. The objective of reactive transport modelling was to identify the main biogeochemical processes within the soil column during the flushing experiment as a conceptual model for riverbank filtration. Modelling was done with a combination of MATLAB and PHREEQC. The main processes identified are: (1) biogeochemical degradation due to interaction of natural surface water with the soil matrix; (2) continuous dissolution of refractory air bubbles from the soil column matrix.
- Subjects
TEGEL Lake (Germany); GERMANY; RIVERBANK filtration; HYDROLOGIC models; SOIL infiltration measurement; PORE fluids; WATER chemistry; FILTERS &; filtration; BIODEGRADATION
- Publication
Hydrological Processes, 2007, Vol 21, Issue 8, p1015
- ISSN
0885-6087
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/hyp.6276