Ground remediation : a practical guide for environmental engineers and scientists

404 Pages·2017·4.253 MB·English

by  Cheremisinoff, Nicholas P

Groundwater Remediation
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Groundwater Remediation
A Practical Guide for Environmental
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Edited by
Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
ISBN 978-1-119-40757-7
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Contents
Preface xi
About the Author xv
1 Conducting Groundwater Quality Investigations 1
1.1 Introduction 1
1.2 Evolution of Site Assessments 2
1.3 Technology Limitations and Cleanup Goals 14
1.4 Conceptual Models 14
1.4.1 Source and Release Information 15
1.4.2 Geologic and Hydrogeologic
Characterization 16
1.4.3 Contaminant Distribution, Transport
and Fate 17
1.4.4 Geochemistry Impacting Natural
Biodegradation 17
1.5 Risk Assessment Concepts 18
1.6 Institutional Controls 20
1.7 Risk-Based Cleanup Goals and Screening
Level Evaluations 20
1.8 Assessing Plume Migration Potential 25
2 The Family of DNAPLs 37
2.1 Defining DNAPL 37
2.2 Chemicals and Origins 38
2.2.1 Creosote and Coal Tars 38
2.2.2 Polychlorinated Biphenyls 41
2.2.3 Chlorinated Solvents 44
2.2.4 Mixtures 48
2.3 DNAPL Behavior 49
2.3.1 General Behavior and Concepts 49
2.3.2 Important Parameters for Site Characterization 56
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2.4 Overview of Remediation Strategies 59
2.4.1 Remediation Goals 59
2.4.2 Technologies 63
2.4.2.1 Pump-and-Treat 63
2.4.2.2 Permeable Reactive Barriers 63
2.4.2.3 Physical Barriers 64
2.4.2.4 Enhanced Biodegradation 64
2.4.2.5 Thermal Technologies 64
2.4.2.6 Chemical Flushing 65
2.4.2.7 Excavation and Removal 65
2.4.2.8 Soil Vacuum Extraction 66
2.4.2.9 Water Flooding 66
2.4.2.10 Air Sparging 66
3 Hydrocarbons 69
3.1 Fate and Transport 69
3.1.1 General 69
3.1.2 Advective Transport 70
3.1.3 Dispersion 70
3.1.4 Sorption 71
3.1.5 Dilution and Recharge 73
3.1.6 Volatilization 73
3.2 Gasoline Compounds 74
3.2.1 General Description 74
3.2.2 The BTEX Compounds and MTBE 74
3.2.3 Properties of VOCs 75
3.2.4 Degradation 75
3.2.5 Half-Lifes 77
3.3 Pump and Treat 79
3.3.1 Concept 79
3.3.2 Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids 85
3.3.3 Contaminant Desorption and Precipitate
Dissolution 86
3.3.4 Remedial Technologies 87
3.3.5 EPA Cost Data for Pump-and-Treat 89
4 1,4-Dioxane 95
4.1 Overview 95
4.2 Properties, Fate and Transport 98
4.3 Health Effects and Regulations 103
Contents vii
4.4 Remediation Technologies 104
4.4.1 Advanced Oxidation (Ex Situ) 109
4.4.2 Adsorption (GAC) (Ex Situ) 113
4.4.3 Bioremediation 113
4.4.4 Treatment in Soil 114
5 Perfluorinated Compounds (PFCS) 117
5.1 Overview 117
5.2 Origins of the Contaminants 118
5.3 PFAs Properties and Structures 121
5.3.1 General Description 121
5.3.2 Variations of PFAS 123
5.3.3 PFOS 126
5.3.4 PFOA 129
5.4 Environmental Fate and Transport 130
5.5 Groundwater Contamination 144
5.6 Water Treatment 149
5.7 Estimating Carbon Treatement Costs 157
6 Chlorinated Solvents 163
6.1 Physico-Chemical Properties of Chlorinated Solvents 163
6.2 Origins of Groundwater Contamination 167
6.3 Fate and Transport 168
6.3.1 Properties 168
6.3.2 Degradation and Daughter Products 170
6.3.3 Biodegradation Half-Life 173
6.3.4 DNAPL Migration 185
6.4 Groundwater Remediation Strategies 188
6.4.1 Preliminary Considerations 188
6.4.2 Soil Excavation, Treatment and Disposal 195
6.4.3 Soil Vapor Extraction 197
6.4.4 Enhanced Methods of Soil Vapor Extraction 201
6.4.5 In Situ Air Sparging 202
6.4.6 Enhanced Biodegradation 210
6.4.7 In-well Aeration and Recirculation 215
6.4.8 Reactive and Permeable Walls 216
6.5 Costs 217
6.5.1 Soil Excavation, Treatment and Disposal 217
6.5.2 Soil Vapor Extraction 220
6.5.3 Air Sparging Comparisons to other Technologies 227
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7 Mineral Ions and Natural Groundwater Contaminants 233
7.1 Overview 233
7.2 Secondary Drinking Water Standards 236
7.3 Irrigation Water Quality Standards 238
7.3.1 Salts 238
7.3.2 Water Analysis Terminology 238
7.3.3 Types of Salt Problems 239
7.3.4 Salinity Hazard 241
7.3.5 Sodium Hazard 242
7.3.6 Trace Elements and Limits 242
7.4 Water Treatment Membrane Technologies 247
7.4.1 Overview 247
7.4.2 Reverse Osmosis (RO) 248
7.4.3 Nanofiltration 255
7.4.4 Microfiltration 258
7.4.5 Ultrafiltration 260
7.4.6 Treatment Costs 262
7.4.7 Secondary Wastes 265
7.4.8 Selection Criteria 265
7.5 Ion Exchange 266
7.5.1 Technology Description 266
7.5.2 Chelating Agents 271
7.5.3 Batch and Column Exchange Systems 272
7.5.4 Process Equipment 272
7.5.5 Cost Data 275
7.6 Crystallization 279
7.6.1 Technology Description 279
7.6.2 Forced-Circulation Crysallizers 286
7.6.3 Draft-tube Crystallizers and Draft-tube-baffle
Crystallizers 288
7.6.4 Surface-Cooled Crystallizers 289
7.6.5 Oslo Crystallizers 291
7.6.6 Fluid-Bed Type Crystallizers 292
8 Heavy Metals and Mixed Media Remediation Technologies
for Contaminated Soils and Groundwater 299
8.1 Nature of the Problem 299
8.2 Toxic Metal Chemical Forms, Speciation 300
and Properties
Contents ix
8.3 Remedial Technology Strategies 306
8.3.1 Isolation 306
8.3.2 Capping 306
8.3.3 Subsurface Barriers 313
8.3.4 Immobilization 315
8.3.5 Solidification/Stabilization 317
8.3.6 Vitrification 321
8.3.7 Toxicity and Mobility Reduction 323
8.3.8 Wet Oxidation Process 331
8.3.9 Advanced Oxidation Technologies 333
8.3.10 Permeable Treatment Walls 343
8.3.11 Biological Treatment 344
8.3.12 Physical Separation 346
8.3.13 Extraction 349
8.3.14 Soil Washing 349
8.3.15 Soil Screening 350
8.3.16 Chemical Treatment 350
8.3.17 Physical Treatment 351
8.3.18 Pyrometallurgical Extraction 352
8.3.19 In Situ Soil Flushing 352
8.3.20 Electrokinetic Treatment 352
8.4 Cost Data 353
8.4.1 General Cost Information 353
8.4.2 Site Capping 356
8.4.3 In situ Solidification/Stabilization 358
8.4.4 Ex Situ Solidification/Stabilization 361
8.4.5 Soil Washing 365
8.4.6 Slurry Walls 367
Index 379