| Main Title |
Measurements of Soil Permeability and Pressure Fields in EPA's Soil-Gas Chamber. |
| Author |
Mosley, R. B. ;
Snoddy, R. ;
Brubaker, S. A. ;
|
| CORP Author |
Acurex Corp., Research Triangle Park, NC.;Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC. Air and Energy Engineering Research Lab. |
| Publisher |
1993 |
| Year Published |
1993 |
| Report Number |
EPA-68-D2-0063; EPA/600/A-93/253; |
| Stock Number |
PB94-112893 |
| Additional Subjects |
Soil gases ;
Test chambers ;
Indoor air pollution ;
Permeability ;
Pressure ;
US EPA ;
Moisture ;
Comparison ;
Chemical compounds ;
Radon ;
Advection ;
Measurement ;
|
| Internet Access |
|
| Holdings |
| Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last
Modified |
Checkout
Status |
| NTIS |
PB94-112893 |
Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. |
|
07/26/2022 |
|
| Collation |
18p |
| Abstract |
The paper discusses the measurement of soil permeability and pressure fields using EPA's soil-gas chamber, designed to study the production and transport of radon and other potential indoor air pollutants originating in soils. The chamber is instrumented to measure distributions of radon and pressure fields and also moisture distributions and their resulting influence on soil permeability. An analytic solution for advective flow in the soil-gas chamber is presented which includes the effects of moisture-dependent spatial variations of the permeability. Measurements of the pressure field are compared with model calculations. Relatively good agreement between the measurements and calculations is obtained, except near the water level where boundary conditions are not rigorously satisfied. |
