Objectives:Previous studies have found that organic acids, organic bases, and detergent-like chemicals change surface wettability. The wastewater and NAPL mixtures discharged at the Hanford site contain such chemicals, and their proportions likely change over time due to reaction-facilitated aging. The specific objectives of this work were to 1) determine the effect of organic chemical mixtures on surface wettability, 2) determine the effect of organic chemical mixtures on CCl4 volatilization rates from NAPL, and 3) accurately determine the migration, entrapment, and volatilization of organic chemical mixtures. Tasks:Five tasks were proposed to achieve the project objectives. These are to 1) prepare representative batches of fresh and aged NAPL-wastewater mixtures, 2) to measure interfacial tension, contact angle, and capillary pressure-saturation profiles for the same mixtures, 3) to measure interphase mass transfer rates for the same mixtures using micromodels, 4) to measure multiphase flow and interphase mass transfer in large flow cell experiments, all using the same mixtures, and 5) to modify the multiphase flow simulator STOMP in order to account for updated P-S and interphase mass transfer relationships, and to simulate the impact of CCl4 in the vadoze zone on groundwater contamination.
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