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A New Evaluation Model for Natural Attenuation Capacity of a Vadose Zone Against Petroleum Contaminants

유류 오염물질에 대한 불포화대 자연 저감능 등급화 기법 개발

Heesoo Woo1
,
Seongnam An1
,
Kibeum Kim4
,
Saerom Park5
,
Sungjik Oh12
,
Sang Hyun Kim1
,
Jaeshik Chung12*
,
Seunghak Lee123*
우희수 1
,
안성남 1
,
김기범 4
,
박새롬 5
,
오성직 12
,
김상현 1
,
정재식 12*
,
이승학 123*
1Water Cycle Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul 02792, Korea
2Division of Energy and Environmental Technology, KIST School, Korea University of Science and Technology (UST), Seoul 02792, Republic of Korea
3Graduate School of Energy and Environment (KU-KIST Green School), Seoul 20841, Korea
4Cheongwoo Environment Co., LTD., Seoul 05681, Korea
5Korea Institute of Civil engineering and building Technology, Department of Environmental research, Gyeonggi-do, 10223, Korea
1한국과학기술연구원(KIST) 물자원순환연구단
2과학기술연합대학원대학교(UST) 에너지-환경융합전공
3고려대학교 에너지환경대학원
4(주)청우환경
5한국건설기술연구원(KICT) 환경연구본부
*Corresponding Author
31 July 2022. pp. 92-98
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Abstract

Although various methods have been proposed to assess groundwater vulnerability, most of the models merely consider the mobility of contaminants (i.e., intrinsic vulnerability), and the attenuation capacity of vadose zone is often neglected. This study proposed an evaluation model for the attenuation capacity of vadose zone to supplement the limitations of the existing index method models for assessing groundwater vulnerability. The evaluation equation for quantifying the attenuation capacity was developed from the combined linear regression and weighted scaling methods based on the lab-scale experiments using various vadose zone soils having different physical and biogeochemical properties. The proposed semi-quantifying model is expected to effectively assess the attenuation capacity of vadose zone by identifying the main influencing factors as input parameters together with proper weights derived from the coefficients of the regression results. The subsequent scoring and grading system has great versatility while securing the objectivity by effectively incorporating the experimental results.

Keywords
Attenuation capacity
Groundwater vulnerability assessment
Index method
Multiple linear regression analysis
Vadose zone
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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 :92-98
  • Received Date : 2022-06-23
  • Revised Date : 2022-06-27
  • Accepted Date : 2022-07-19
  • DOI :https://doi.org/10.7857/JSGE.2022.27.S.092
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