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FOOTPRINT: A New Tool to Predict the Potential Impact of Biofuels on BTEX Plumes
Citation:
WILSON, J. T. FOOTPRINT: A New Tool to Predict the Potential Impact of Biofuels on BTEX Plumes. IN: LUSTLine, New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission, Lowell, MA66:14-17, (2010).
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Description:
Ahsanuzzaman et al. (2008) used the Deeb et al. (2002) conceptual model to construct a simple screening model to estimate the area of a plume of benzene produced from a release of gasoline containing ethanol. The screening model estimates the plume area, or footprint of the plume, in addition to the plume length because the chance that a plume will impact a monitoring well is proportional to its surface area, not its length. FOOTPRINT is built around the Dominico analytical solutions to the advection dispersion transport equation (Dominico, 1987; Martin-Hayden and Robbins, 1997). This is the same mathematics that is used in BIOSCREEN, a widely used fate and transport model. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency through its Office of Research and Development funded and managed the research described here through in-house efforts. It has been subjected to the Agency’s peer and administrative review and has been approved for publication as an EPA document.
