LECTURE NOTES
Week 1 – Introduction
Introduction to the course.
Week 2 – Remediation Engineering and Hazardous Waste Pollution
Remediation Engineering (Chapter 1 of S1)
Hazardous Waste Pollution and Evolution of Remediation (Chapter 1 of S2)
Week 3 – Site Assessment and Remedial Investigation
Site Assessment and Remedial Investigation (Chapter 2 of K)
Soil Pollution Control and Point-Source-Contaminated Sites Regulation
Week 4 – Nature of Environmental Contaminants
Nature of Environmental Contaminants (Chapter 2 of R)
Solubility and Vapor Pressure (Section 1.8.1 in H)
Henry’s Law Constants (Section 1.8.2 in H)
Week 5 – Chemical Distribution Among Phases
Chemical Distribution Among Phases (Section 1.8 of H)
Environmental Partitioning (Section 3.2 in R)
Mass of COCs Present in Different Phases (Section 2.4 in K)
Week 6 – Groundwater Contamination & Groundwater Flow
Groundwater Contamination (Chapter 1 of F1)
Plume Migration in Aquifer and Soil (Chapter 3 of K)
Groundwater Flow (Section 1.8 of F1; Chapters 3,4 of F2; Chapters 5,9 of R; Section 3.2 of K)
Week 7 – Groundwater Flow Gradient and Flow Direction & Groundwater Flow to Wells
Groundwater Flow (Chapters 3,4,5 of F2, Chapter 9 of R, Chapter 3.2-3.4 of K)
Diffusive Transport in Porous Media (Sections 2.2 of F1, Section 3.5 of K)
Week 8 – Diffusive, Dispersive, Advective Transport in Groundwater
Diffusive, Dispersive, Advective Transport in Groundwater (Sections 2.2-2.6 of F1, Section 3.2.5 in H, Section 10.6 in F2, Section 3.5 in K)
Week 9
Week 10 – Flow and Transport in the Subsurface & Retardation
Flow in the Unsaturated Zone (Section 3.3 in H)
The Flow of Nonaqueous Phase Liquids (Section 3.4 in H)
Retardation (Section 3.5 in H)
Migration Velocity of the Dissolved Plume (Section 3.5 in K)
Week 11 – Biodegradation
Modeling Biodegradation (Section 2.6.3 in H)
Biodegradation (Section 3.6 in H, Section 3.9 in F1)
Chemical Kinetics (Section 4.3 in K)
Week 12 – Bioremediation & Air Sparging
Soil Bioremediation (Section 5.4 in K)
In-Situ Groundwater Bioremediation (Section 6.6 in K)
Air Sparging (Section 6.7 in K)
In Situ Air Sparging (Chapter 4 in S1)
Week 13 – Source Control & Pump-and-Treat Systems & NAPL Recovery & Soil-Vapor Extraction
Source Control Measures (Section 9.2 in F1)
Pump-and-Treat Systems (Section 9.3 in F1)
Groundwater Extraction (Section 6.2 in K)
Capture Zones (Sections 9.3.2-9.3.3 in F1)
Computing Drawdown Caused by a Pumping Well (Section 5.4. in F2)
Recovery of Nonaqueous Phase Liquids (Section 9.6 in F1)
Soil Vapor Extraction (Section 9.7 in F1, Section 5.2 in K, Chapter 3 in S1)
Week 14 – In-Situ Flushing for DNAPL Remediation (Invited Lecturer: Dr. Nihat Hakan Akyol)
Akyol, N. H., et al. (2013). “Impact of Enhanced-Flushing Reagents and Organic Liquid Distribution on Mass Removal and Mass Discharge Reduction.” Water, Air, & Soil Pollution 224(10): 1-9.
Week 15 – Review
Expected Vapor Concentration in SVE Systems (Section 5.2.2 in K)
Cone of Depression in Groundwater Extraction Systems (Section 6.2.1 in K)
Recep Kaya Göktaş 