Journal
GEOTEXTILES AND GEOMEMBRANES
Volume 49, Issue 2, Pages 376-387Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.geotexmem.2020.10.009
Keywords
Geosynthetics; Analytical solutions; Contaminated sediments; Diffusion; In-situ capping; Reactive core mat
Funding
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2019YFC1806000]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [52078235]
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This paper presents analytical solutions for predicting contaminant diffusion in a four-layer sediment-cap system and conducts parametric studies to investigate the significant impact of factors such as cap thickness and contaminated sediment thickness on contaminant transport.
This paper presents analytical solutions for predicting one-dimensional contaminant diffusion in a four-layer sediment-cap system, which is typically encountered in subaqueous in-situ capping of contaminated sediments. The sediment-cap system is comprised of, from top to bottom, a layer of capping material (e.g., clean sand), a layer of reactive core mat (RCM), a layer of contaminated sediment and a layer of uncontaminated sediment. Two different bottom boundary conditions are considered, i.e., zero-concentration-gradient bottom boundary condition and zero-concentration bottom boundary condition, for which the method of separation of variables is used to obtain the analytical solutions. The extensively verified CST3 (Consolidation and Solute Transport 3) model is used to verify the proposed analytical solutions. Using the verified analytical solutions, parametric studies are conducted to investigate the effect of several important parameters on contaminant transport in the four-layer sediment-cap system. The results indicate that the cap thickness, the contaminated sediment thickness, the uncontaminated sediment thickness, the effect of RCM, and the RCM distribution coefficient have significant impact on contaminant diffusion in the four-layer sediment-cap system. The analytical solutions presented herein can be used to assist the design of subaqueous in-situ capping of contaminated sediments and to verify other numerical models.
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