Chlorinated hydrocarbons (CHCs) are one of the pollutant groups most commonly found in hazardous waste sites. Understanding the transport and fate of these compounds in the vadose zone is crucial to identifying pollution sources, assessing the threat to groundwater, and evaluating the need and adequacy of cleanup. CHCs exist in various physical phases in the subsurface, linked by interphasal pr...

The occurrence of halogenated volatile organic compounds (HVOCs) in groundwater beneath several municipal solid waste landfills in Tucson, Arizona in the absence of significant liquid phase movement has suggested that vapor phase transport may be the principal process transporting HVOCs from the vadose zone into the water table. The results of mathematical modeling of these transport processes ...

The full-scale in situ bioremediation demonstration conducted at DOE’s Savannah River Site revealed a wide range of spatial and temporal variations of concentrations of VOCs, enzymes, and biomass in groundwater and vadose zone monitoring boreholes over the field site. One of the powerful modern approaches to analyze uncertain and imprecise data is based on the use of methods of fuzzy systems mo...

in this paper, a modeling tool for risk assessment analysis of the movement of hydrocarbon contaminants in the vadose zone and mass flux of contamination release into the groundwater table was developed. also, advection-diffusion-reaction equations in combination with a three-phase equilibrium state between trapped air, soil humidity, and solid particles of unsaturated soil matrix were numerica...

sugarcane, which has high water requirements, is grown in khuzestan province (iran). climate and optimizing the use of water is very important to sustainable cultivation of sugarcane. studies of water requirements for sugar cane in khuzestan show that in parts of sugarcane agro-industry, the water applied is more than the actual water requirement of the plant. the present study was conducted to...