Degassing of Pore Water Methane during Sediment Incubations

Investigation of Two Novel Approaches for Detection of Sulfate Ion and Methane Dissolved in Sediment Pore Water Using Raman Spectroscopy

The levels of dissolved sulfate and methane are crucial indicators in the geochemical analysis of pore water. Compositional analysis of pore water samples obtained from sea trials was conducted using Raman spectroscopy. It was found that the concentration of SO42- in pore water samples decreases as the depth increases, while the expected Raman signal of methane has not been observed. A possible...

Interpretation of measured concentration profiles in sediment pore water

A robust numerical procedure for biogeochemical interpretation and analysis of measured concentration profiles of solutes in sediment pore water has been developed. Assuming that the concentration-depth profile represents a steady state, the rate of net production or consumption as a function of depth can be calculated, together with the flux across the sediment-water interface. Three kinds of ...

Efficiency of the Nam Theun 2 hydraulic structures on water aeration and methane degassing

Release of hypolimnetic water from man-made reservoirs can be a problem for downstream rivers. These effects can be significant mainly during the first years after the reservoir impoundment, especially in thermally stratified reservoirs favouring the release of anoxicmethane-richwater. In tropical areas, higher temperatures decrease the oxygen solubility and enhance chemical processes responsib...

Sediment Pore Waters

Estimation of pore water pressure in the body of earth dams during construction with intelligent models

One of the basic measures in managing the stability of earth dams is to accurately estimate the amount of pore water pressure in the body of the dam during and after its construction. In this study, three different models of artificial neural network (ANN), adaptive neural-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) and gene expression programming (GEP) to estimate the pore water pressure in the body of Kab...