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Fundamental of Electrokinetic Processes

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There are three transport processes associated with the application of electric fields in soils, which affects the mobility of ions (electromigration), colloids (electrophoresis), and pore water (electroosmosis). These processes are influenced by other physical, chemical, and electrochemical processes in a complex soil matrix and their rates depend linearly on the electric field and also on the properties of the species to be transported and/or pore water or soil particle properties. In this chapter, the fundamentals of these processes are described, as well as how they are used in real soil treatment processes.

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Financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness and European Union through project CTM2016-76197-R (AEI/FEDER, UE) is gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Chemical Sciences & Technologies, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Campus Universitario, Ciudad Real, Spain

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Rodrigo, M.A. (2021). Fundamental of Electrokinetic Processes. In: Rodrigo, M.A., Dos Santos, E.V. (eds) Electrochemically Assisted Remediation of Contaminated Soils. Environmental Pollution, vol 30. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68140-1_2

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