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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Volume 465, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2023.133048
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CFD-DEM; Clogging; Repulsive Force; Surface Energy Density; Colloid; Coulomb repulsion
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Transportation process of nano scale zero valent iron (nZVI) in clay-rich soils is complicated and crucial for in-situ remediation of contaminated sites. A coupled computational fluid dynamic and discrete element method (CFD-DEM) was used to investigate the interplays of repulsive and attractive forces and the injection velocity of this process.
Transportation process of nano scale zero valent iron (nZVI) in clay-rich soils is complicated and crucial for in -situ remediation of contaminated sites. A coupled computational fluid dynamic and discrete element method (CFD-DEM) was used to investigate the interplays of repulsive and attractive forces and the injection velocity of this process. The screened Coulomb's law was used to represent the electrostatic interaction, and surface energy density was introduced to represent the effects of the van der Waals interaction. A phase diagram was con-structed to describe the interplay between injection velocity and repulsive force (in terms of charge of colloids). Under the boundary and initial conditions in this study, clogging formed at low repulsive force (colloidal charge =-1 x10-15 C), where increment of injection velocity (from 0.002 m/s to 0.02 m/s) cannot prevent clogging, as in the case of bare nZVI transportation with limited mobility; On the other hand, excessive repulsive force (charge =-4 x10-14 C) is detrimental to nZVI-clay transportation due to repulsion from the concentrated col-loids in pore throats, a phenomenon as in the overuse of stabilizers and was defined as the membrane repulsion effect in this study. At moderate charge (-1 x10-14 C), injection velocity increment induced clogging due to aggregates formed at the windward of cylinder and accumulated at the pore throats.
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