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Application of divided convective-dispersive transport model to simulate variability of conservative transport processes inside a planted horizontal subsurface flow constructed wetland

Journal

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
Volume 28, Issue 13, Pages 15966-15994

Publisher

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-020-10965-z

Keywords

Divided convective-dispersive transport (D-CDT) model; Fré chet distribution; Inverse Gaussian distribution; Subsurface flow constructed wetlands; Transport processes; Tracer test; Hydraulic variability inside the constructed wetland

Funding

  1. University of Pecs
  2. European Union
  3. European Social Fund [EFOP-3.6.1.-16-2016-00004]
  4. Higher Education Institutional Excellence Programme of theMinistry for Innovation and Technology in Hungary, 2019 of the University of Pecs

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This study applied a novel D-CDT model in Maple environment to investigate transport processes in horizontal subsurface flow constructed wetlands, providing more accurate results compared to the commonly used CDT model. The model demonstrated better fitting to measurement points, allowing for calculations of velocity and dispersion coefficients that were closer to actual hydraulic behavior. It also identified the main flow path in the system, showing differences of 4-99% (velocity) and 2-474% (dispersion coefficient) compared to the CDT model.
This paper offers a novel application of our model worked out in Maple environment to help understand the very complex transport processes in horizontal subsurface flow constructed wetland with coarse gravel (HSFCW-C). We made tracer measurements: Inside a constructed wetland, we had 9 sample points, and samples were taken from each point at two depths. Our model is a divided convective-dispersive transport (D-CDT) model which makes a fitted response curve from the sum of two separate CDT curves showing the contributions of the main and side streams. Analytical solutions of CDT curves are inverse Gaussian distribution functions. This model was fitted onto inner points of the measurements to demonstrate that the model gives better fitting to the inner points than the commonly used convective-dispersive transport model. The importance of this new application of the model is that it can resemble transport processes in these constructed wetlands more precisely than the regularly used convective-dispersive transport (CDT) model. The model allows for calculations of velocity and dispersion coefficients. The results showed that this model gave differences of 4-99% (of velocity) and 2-474% (of dispersion coefficient) compared with the CDT model and values were closer to actual hydraulic behavior. The results also demonstrated the main flow path in the system.

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