Groundwater Primer - Remediation


  1. Introduction
  2. Sources of Pollution
  3. Types of Contaminants
  4. Transport of Contaminants
  5. Fate of Contaminants
  6. Models
  7. Remediation
    1. Containment
      1. Protective Liner Uses and Landfill Application
      2. geosynthetic membranes
      3. slurry walls
      4. hydrodynamic containment
      5. Integrated Barrier-Gate Remediation System for Enhanced Residual LNAPL Recovery
    2. Pump and Treat
      1. Common Treatment Methods for Inorganics
      2. bioremediation using bioreactors
      3. Disadvantages of Pump and Treat Remediation
      4. Activated Sludge
      5. Rotating Biological Contactors
      6. Activated Carbon
      7. air/steam stripping
      8. precipitation/settling
      9. soil vapor extraction
      10. soil venting
      11. Reverse Osmosis
      12. Leachate Recirculation
      13. Composting
    3. In situ
      1. in situ bioremediation of BTEX
      2. in situ bioremediation of TCE
      3. Augmented Bioremediation
      4. In situ Biodegradation
      5. bioventing
      6. air sparging
      7. more air sparging
      8. microbiology of in situ bioremediation
      9. phytoremediation
      10. vitrification
      11. in situ remediation by solvent flushing
  8. Monitoring
  9. Legal Aspects
  10. Miscellaneous
  11. Index


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