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Main Title Guidance manual for risk assessment contaminant fate and transport modeling
Publisher Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission,
Year Published 1994
OCLC Number 52073439
Subjects Environmental risk assessment--Texas ; Petroleum--Underground storage--Texas
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EJBD  TX/NRCC/RG-0091 Headquarters Library/Washington,DC 03/09/2007
Collation 1 v. (various pagings) : ill. ; 28 cm.
Notes
"May 1994." "RG-91."
Contents Notes
Introduction to risk assessment for leaking storage tank sites -- Contaminant distribution in soils -- Bulk movement of hydrocarbons in soil -- Contaminant concentration in the unsaturated zone -- Equilibrium relations between the phases -- Estimating contaminant mass in soil -- Relevant fate and transport models -- Processes simulated by fate and transport models -- Advection -- Molecular diffusion -- Mechanical dispersion -- Hydrodynamic dispersion -- Sorption -- Biochemical transformations -- Analytical models -- Numerical models -- Available models -- Process of model application -- Typical data required by models. Appendices: The Sesoil model -- Jury's unsaturated zone model -- Analytical transport: one, two and three dimensional (AT123D) model -- The Summers model -- Bioplume II model -- Domenico's model -- Thibodeaux-hwang model -- Farmer's vapor emission model -- The Box model -- Gaussian dispersion model -- Examples of estimation of mass transport due to different transport mechanisms -- Conversion table.