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- Title
Using a Gas-Phase Tracer Test to Characterize the Impact of Landfill Gas Generation on Advective-Dispersive Transport of VOCs in the Vadose Zone.
- Authors
Monger, Gregg; Duncan, Candice; Brusseau, Mark
- Abstract
A gas-phase tracer test (GTT) was conducted at a landfill in Tucson, AZ, to help elucidate the impact of landfill gas generation on the transport and fate of chlorinated aliphatic volatile organic contaminants (VOCs). Sulfur hexafluoride (SF) was used as the nonreactive gas tracer. Gas samples were collected from a multiport monitoring well located 15.2 m from the injection well and analyzed for SF, CH, CO, and VOCs. The travel times determined for SF from the tracer test are approximately two to ten times smaller than estimated travel times that incorporate transport by only gas-phase diffusion. In addition, significant concentrations of CH and CO were measured, indicating production of landfill gas. Based on these results, it is hypothesized that the enhanced rates of transport observed for SF are caused by advective transport associated with landfill gas generation. The rates of transport varied vertically, which is attributed to multiple factors including spatial variability of water content, refuse mass, refuse permeability, and gas generation.
- Subjects
GAS phase reactions; LANDFILL gases; VOLATILE organic compounds; SULFUR hexafluoride as a test gas; GAS tracers (Chemistry)
- Publication
Water, Air & Soil Pollution, 2014, Vol 225, Issue 12, p1
- ISSN
0049-6979
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11270-014-2226-0