Optimizing the experimental design of soil columns in saturated and unsaturated transport experiments

J Lewis, J Sjöstrom - Journal of contaminant hydrology, 2010 - Elsevier
Soil column experiments in both the saturated and unsaturated regimes are widely used for
applied and theoretical studies in such diverse fields as transport model evaluation, fate and …

Impact of runoff infiltration on contaminant accumulation and transport in the soil/filter media of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems: A literature review

D Tedoldi, G Chebbo, D Pierlot, Y Kovacs… - Science of the Total …, 2016 - Elsevier
The increasing use of Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) for stormwater
management raises some concerns about the fate of ubiquitous runoff micropollutants in …

Use of column experiments to investigate the fate of organic micropollutants–a review

S Banzhaf, KH Hebig - Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 2016 - hess.copernicus.org
Although column experiments are frequently used to investigate the transport of organic
micropollutants, little guidance is available on what they can be used for, how they should …

Experiments and models for contaminant transport in unsaturated and saturated porous media–A review

X Shu, Y Wu, X Zhang, F Yu - Chemical Engineering Research and Design, 2023 - Elsevier
Soil column experiments in both saturated and unsaturated conditions are widely used for
practical and theoretical research in a variety of domains, including the assessment of …

Batch and column experiments on nutrient leaching in soils amended with Italian natural zeolitites

N Colombani, M Mastrocicco, D Di Giuseppe, B Faccini… - Catena, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper describes the application of the Italian chabazite-rich tuff of Sorano (Grosseto) as
a soil conditioner and slow nutrient fertilizer to a silty-clay soil and a sandy soil. The study …

Meta-analysis of the effects of soil properties, site factors and experimental conditions on solute transport

JK Koestel, J Moeys, NJ Jarvis - Hydrology and Earth System …, 2012 - hess.copernicus.org
Preferential flow is a widespread phenomenon that is known to strongly affect solute
transport in soil, but our understanding and knowledge is still poor of the site factors and soil …

Unsaturated flow effects on solute transport in porous media

L Zhuang, A Raoof, MG Mahmoodlu, S Biekart… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
A major contaminant transport process in soils is hydrodynamic dispersion by affecting the
spreading and arrival of surface-applied pollutants at underlying groundwater reservoirs …

Large-scale pore network and continuum simulations of solute longitudinal dispersivity of a saturated sand column

MG Mahmoodlu, A Raoof, T Bultreys… - Advances in Water …, 2020 - Elsevier
Predicting the solute dispersivity in porous media is complicated by the known scale
dependency of dispersion processes. In this study, we combined three complementary …

Estimation of soil dispersivity using soft computing approaches

S Emamgholizadeh, K Bahman, SM Bateni… - Neural Computing and …, 2017 - Springer
The accurate estimation of soil dispersivity (α) is required for characterizing the transport of
contaminants in soil. The in situ measurement of α is costly and time-consuming. Hence, in …

Competitive sorption and transport of Pb2+, Ni2+, Mn2+, and Zn2+ in lateritic soil columns

S Chotpantarat, SK Ong, C Sutthirat… - Journal of hazardous …, 2011 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge of sorption and transport of heavy metals in soils in the presence of
other metals is crucial for assessing the environmental risk of these metals. Competitive …