Groundwater solutions dissolution

Dissolution of carbonate bedrock by the groundwater solution follows CaC03 + H2CO3 = + 2HCO3. Given that levels of soil CO2 in humid environments are... 

Inorganic reactions in the soil interstitial waters also influence dissolved P concentrations. These reactions include the dissolution or precipitation of P-containing minerals or the adsorption and desorption of P onto and from mineral surfaces. As discussed above, the inorganic reactivity of phosphate is strongly dependent on pH. In alkaline systems, apatite solubility should limit groundwater phosphate whereas in acidic soils, aluminum phosphates should dominate. Adsorption of phosphate onto mineral surfaces, such as iron or aluminum oxyhydroxides and clays, is favored by low solution pH and may influence soil interstitial water concentrations. Phosphorus will be exchanged between organic materials, soil inter-... 

The increased solute-loading in terrestrial waters is due to dissolution of minerals in rock, soil and overburden materials as rainwater infiltrates them. Groundwater experiences the largest degree of water-rock interaction and consequently has the highest average... 

Cosolvent flooding is accomplished by the introduction of a cosolvent solution, with subsequent extraction of contaminated groundwater and NAPL. In one reported field test study that focused on enhanced dissolution, the use of about nine pore volumes of a 70% ethanol, 12% pentanol solution injected into a test cell resulted in about 81% bulk NAPL removal, with a higher removal efficiency for several other individual compounds. In another field test study, where mobilization removal was emphasized, injection of about four pore volumes of a mixture of tert-butanol and w-hcxanol into a test cell resulted in the removal of about 80% of the bulk NAPL, and higher removal efficiency of the more-soluble NAPL compounds. 

Dissolution and precipitation in the subsurface are controlled by the properties of the solid phases, by the chemistry of infiltrating water, by the presence of a gas phase, and by environmental conditions (e.g., temperature, pressure, microbiological activity). Rainwater, for example, may affect mineral dissolution paths differently than groundwater, due to different solution chemistry. When water comes in contact with a solid surface, a simultaneous process of weathering and dissolution may occur under favorable conditions. Dissolution of a mineral continues until equilibrium concentrations are reached in the solution (between solid and liquid phases) or until all the minerals are consumed. 

EXAMPLE 2.2 Unsteady dissolution of a highly soluble pollutant (herbicides, pesticides, ammonia, alcohols, etc.) into groundwater (unsteady, one-dimensional solution with pulse boundary conditions)... 

EXAMPLE 7.1 Unsteady dissolution of ammonia into groundwater (unsteady, onedimensional solution with pulse boundary conditions) solved with an explicit, central difference computation... 

U-bearing minerals and adsorption processes (Salah et al. 2000 Perez del Villar et al. 2000). The vertical and lateral flow of groundwater is responsible for the oxidation and dissolution of primary sulphides, leading to acidic solutions that facilitated the oxidation and dissolution of uraninite. The resulting uranyl cations migrated and precipitated as uranyl minerals, mainly phosphates, silicates, silico-phosphates. In certain local conditions, reduction of these uranyl cations allowed precipitation of coffinite with a high content of P and LREE. Adsorption of uranium, together with P, mainly occurs on Fe-oxyhydroxides, but this kind of uranium retention seems less efficient than the precipitation, at least in the close vicinity to the... 

Most of the dissolved calcium in groundwater in northern Wisconsin is the result of silicate hydrolysis of the aquifer materials. The assumption of conservancy is accurate only because of the relatively slow rates of silicate dissolution. The presence of more soluble calcium-containing minerals, such as calcite or gypsum, would invalidate assumptions of conservancy and would lead to significant errors in solute budgets. 

In a nuclear waste repository located in basalt, solution pH is controlled by interactions between groundwater and the reactive glassy portion of the Grande Ronde basalt (10). In situ measurements and experimental data for this system indicate that equilibrium or steady-state solutions are saturated with respect to silica at ambient temperatures and above. Silica saturation and the low, total-dissolved carbonate concentration indicate the pH may be controlled by the dissolution of the basalt glass (silica-rich) with subsequent buffering by the silicic acid buffer. At higher temperatures, carbonate, sulfate, and water dissociation reactions may contribute to control the final pH values. 

The two-dimensional transient transport of the solute originating from the dissolution of a PCE pool in saturated, homogeneous porous media under uniform interstitial groundwater flow and in the presence of dissolved humic substances is governed by [57]... 

Models to predict materials performance in industrial applications, or to assess the environmental consequences of some industrial activity, are a major immediate need. The requirement for such models is driven by environmental concerns, such as a desire to avoid groundwater contamination, and industrial concerns such as the necessity of reducing costs by extending plant lifetimes and operating efficiencies. Since many materials corrosion and mineral dissolution processes are electrochemical in nature, electrochemical techniques are commonly used in the study and development of solutions to these problems. 

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