Handbook of Groundwater Remediation Using Permeable Reactive Barriers: Applications to Radionuclides

Title: Handbook of Groundwater Remediation Using Permeable Reactive Barriers: Applications to Radionuclides
Author: Christopher Fuller & James Davis, David Naftz, Stan Morrison
ISBN: 0125135637 / 9780125135634
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 544
Publisher: Academic Press
Year: 2002
Availability: Out of Stock

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Over the last century and a half, groundwaters have become contaminated by a growing number of organic and inorganic substances ranging from petroleum-derived hydrocarbons to radioactive compounds, to cancer-causing hexavalent chromium. The importance of uncontaminated groundwater for agriculture, human consumption, and the environmental health of ecosystems is paramount to the health and productivity of industrial society. Water scientists and managers are focused on developing cost-effective methods to reverse this trend.

Several methodologies have been developed, however few are as cost-effective as the use of readily available materials, such as iron and organic compost, for absorbing and isolating contaminants within the matrix of a permeable barrier. The Handbook of Groundwater Remediation using Permeable Reactive Barriers presents readers with this latest technology and developments within four main sections:

1. Innovations in Design, Construction, and Evaluation of PRBs
2. Development of Reactive Materials
3. Evaluations of Chemical and Biological Processes
4. Case Studies of Permeable Reactive Barrier Installations

The Handbook is one of the first references specifically on this topic. It is an excellent fit for graduate students entering this emerging field as well as professionals conducting research or implementing this technology.

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Contributors
Foreword
Preface
About the Editors
Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 : Introduction to Groundwater Remediation of Metals, Radionuclides, and Nutrients with Permeable Reactive Barriers

Part 1 : Innovations in Design, Construction, and Evaluation of Permeable Reactive Barriers
Chapter 2 : Design and Performance of Limestone Drains to Increase pH and Remove Metals from Acidic Mine Drainage
Chapter 3 : Preliminary Investigation into the Suitability of Permeable Reactive Barriers for the Treatment of Acid Sulfate Soils Discharge
Chapter 4 : Permeable Reactive Barrier/GeoSiphon Treatment for Metals-Contaminated Groundwater
Chapter 5 : Deep Aquifer Remediation Tools : Theory, Design, and Performance Modeling
Chapter 6 : Creation of a Subsurface Permeable Reactive Barrier Using in Situ Redox Manipulation

Part 2 : Development of Reactive Materials
Chapter 7 : Development and Performance of an Iron Oxide/Phosphate Reactive Barrier for the Remediation of Uranium-Contaminated Groundwater
Chapter 8 : Treatability Study of Reactive Materials to Remediate Groundwater Contaminated with Radionuclides, Metals, and Nitrates in a Four-Component Permeable Reactive Barrier

Part 3 : Evaluations of Chemical and Biological Processes
Chapter 9 : Evaluation of Apatite Materials for Use in Permeable Reactive Barriers for the Remediation of Uranium-Contaminated Groundwater
Chapter 10 : Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria in the Zero Valent Iron Permeable Reactive Barrier at Fry Canyon, Utah
Chapter 11 : Biogeochemical, Mineralogical, and Hydrological Characteristics of an Iron Reactive Barrier Used for Treatment of Uranium and Nitrate
Chapter 12 : Analysis of Uranium-Contaminated Zero Valent Iron Media Sampled from Permeable Reactive Barriers Installed at U.S. Department of Energy Sites in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Durango, Colorado

Part 4 : Case Studies of Permeable Reactive Barrier Installations
Chapter 13 : Design and Performance of a Permeable Reactive Barrier for Containment of Uranium, Arsenic, Selenium, Vanadium, Molybdenum, and Nitrate at Monticello, Utah
Chapter 14 : Field Demonstration of Three Permeable Reactive Barriers to Control Uranium Contamination in Groundwater, Fry Canyon, Utah
Chapter 15 : Collection Drain and Permeable Reactive Barrier for Treating Uranium and Metals from Mill Tailings Near Durango, Colorado
Chapter 16 : In Sit Reduction of Chromium-Contaminated Groundwater, Soils, and Sediments by Sodium Dithionite
Chapter 17 : Sulfate Reduction Permeable Reactive Barriers to Treat Acidity, Cadmium, Copper, Nickel and Zinc : Two Case Studies

Index