Partitioning Interwell Tracer Test and Analysis Method for Estimating Oil Pollutants in the Underground

Chan-Duck Jeong; Yong-Cheol Kim; Woo-Ho Myeong; Sung-Su Bang; Gyu-Sang Lee; Sung-Ho Song

doi:10.7857/JSGE.2022.27.S.099

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Partitioning Interwell Tracer Test and Analysis Method for Estimating Oil Pollutants in the Underground 지중 유류오염량 추정을 위한 분배추적자 시험 및 해석방법

31 July 2022. pp. 99-112

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Abstract

From early 2000, many researchers in the groundwater and soil environment remediation project tried to calculate the pollution level and pollution remediation cost and reflect it in the design. In addition, by identifying the movement characteristics of oil pollutants in the underground environment, many researchers tried to derive design factors necessary for pollution purification. However, although the test should be conducted in an area contaminated with oil, the toxicity and risk are too great for testing by deliberately leaking pollutants that are harmful to the human body. And as oil-contaminated areas are promoted by military units such as returned US military bases, there is a limit to access by the general public. In addition, since the indoor simulation test and the field application test have been carried out separately from each other, it was difficult to compare and review various simulation tests Therefore, in this study, PITT (Partitioning Interwell Tracer Test) and analysis methods were specifically presented through actual tests so that field workers could easily use them with the help of the military base and the Korea Rural Community Corporation Soil Environment Restoration Team. However, in order to directly reflect the distribution tracer test results in the pollution remediation design, it is necessary to reduce the analysis errors by comparing the analysis results of the existing soil pollution survey, physical exploration, and numerical modeling. In addition, it is judged to be cautious in the analysis because errors can easily occur due to various factors such as the type of oil at the polluted site, the hydraulic conductivity of the aquifer, and the skill of the researcher.

Keywords

underground environment

oil pollution

PITT

pollution distribution

pollution amount

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Publisher :The Korean Society of Soil and Groundwater Environment
Publisher(Ko) :한국지하수토양환경학회
Journal Title :Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment
Journal Title(Ko) :지하수토양환경
Volume : 27
No :1
Pages :99-112
Received Date : 2022-06-14
Revised Date : 2022-06-28
Accepted Date : 2022-07-20
DOI :https://doi.org/10.7857/JSGE.2022.27.S.099

Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment ISSN:1598-6438(Print) 2287-8831(Online) 지하수토양환경

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