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DENITRIFICATION IN NONHOMOGENEOUS LABORATORY SCALE AQUIFERS: 4. HYDRAULICS, NITROGEN CHEMISTRY, AND MICROBIOLOGY IN A SINGLE LAYER
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Lindstrom, F., L. Boersman, D. Myrold, AND M. Barlaz. DENITRIFICATION IN NONHOMOGENEOUS LABORATORY SCALE AQUIFERS: 4. HYDRAULICS, NITROGEN CHEMISTRY, AND MICROBIOLOGY IN A SINGLE LAYER. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/2-91/014 (NTIS PB91182345), 1991.
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A two-dimensional mathematical model for simulating the transport and fate of organic chemicals in a laboratory scale, single layer aquifer is presented. he aquifer can be nonhomogeneous and anisotropic with respect to its fluid flow properties. he physical model has open inlet and outlet ends and is bounded by impermeable walls on all sides. ully penetrating injection and/or extraction wells can be placed anywhere in the flow field. he inlet and outlet boundaries have user prescribed hydraulic pressure fields. he steady state hydraulic pressure field is obtained first by using the two-dimensional Darcy flow law and the continuity equation. he chemical transport and fate equation is then solved in terms of user stipulated initial and boundary conditions. he model accounts for the major physical processes of storage, dispersion, and advection, and also can account for linear equilibrium sorption, first-order loss processes, microbial denitrification, irreversible sorption and/or dissolution into the organic phase, metabolism in the sorbed state, and first order loss in the sorbed state. he chemical may be released internally via distributed leaks, sources that do not perturb the flow field, or fully penetrating injection wells. hemical compounds may also enter at the inlet boundary. hemical mass balance type inlet and outlet boundary conditions are used.
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DENITRIFICATION IN NONHOMOGENEOUS LABORATORY SCALE AQUIFERS: 4. HYDRAULICS, NITROGEN CHEMISTRY, AND MICROBIOLOGY IN A SINGLE LAYER