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Symulacja rozkładów ciśnień i prędkości przepływu powietrza w procesie desorpcji próżniowej zanieczyszczeń z gruntu

Kawala Z., Dakiniewicz P., Czerniak H., Araszkiewicz M.

Ochrona Środowiska

2002

nr 3

15-21

Soil and groundwater contamination by petroleum hydrocarbons and organic solvents has become a worldwide problem, which primarily faces high-technology countries. Soil vapor extraction (SVE) of volatile and some semivolatile compounds is rapidly being recognized as a technically and economically sound alternative to the available methods of cleaning chemically polluted soils. SVE entails the induction of an advective air phase through the contaminated vadose zone of the soil. In the unsaturated zone, the air flow can be established with combinations of withdrawal (extraction) and injection (if required) wells. Air laden with the contaminant vapors moves along the induced flow paths toward the withdrawing system, where it is subject to after-treatment. If the process is carried out for a sufficiently long time, it will be possible to remove all of the contaminants from the soil. The use of the SVE method provides continuous air flow through the vadose zone, which is a requisite for an efficient cleaning operation. A reliable assessment of the pressure distributions in the vicinity of the extraction wells, and a thorough analysis of the air flow conditions are of great importance to the design of an optimal SVE system, as well as to the determination of the major operating parameters. The present paper describes a three dimensional mathematical model which predicts the steady-state air flow through the unsaturated zone of the soil. The paper also includes the results of a computer simulation of air flow in soils, using the AIR3D software developed by loss and Baehr. With this software it was possible to examine how the properties of the soil (porosity, permeability and anisotropy) and the operating parameters of the SVE system (number and arrangement of the wells, depth and length of the filters, vacuum head in the wells) affect the pressure distribution, the mass and volumetric air flow rate, as well as the components of the air velocity vector in the soil.