Contaminant Transport Modeling At Underground Gasoline Tanks Sites,
Hamza, KI, and Elansary A. S.
, Joint Conference on Water Resource Engineering and Water Resources Planning and Management, (2000)
AbstractFreshwater is a vital commodity. With the ever increasing population and the limited water resources around the world, groundwater is considered one of the strategic supplies of freshwater for agricultural, domestic and industrial uses. Groundwater contamination presents a major environmental hazard. Contamination sources include leaching of agricultural fertilizers and pesticides, leakage from sewers and sewage systems, and spills from underground storage tanks (USTs). Some of these pollutants are biodegradable, such that natural filtration and adsorption may remove part of unsuitable present organisms. On the other hand, chemical contaminants are of persisting nature, and thus more hazardous. One of these is gasoline contamination from USTs, which poses severe contamination problems to the groundwater aquifers. A mathematical and numerical model is developed to simulate the transport and fate of …