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Temperature-dependent dissolution of residual non-aqueous phase liquids: model development and verification

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The use of heat storages in the subsurface, especially in urbanized areas, may conflict with existing subsurface contaminations of non-aqueous phase liquids (NAPL). In this work, available data and models regarding temperature influences on parameters for kinetic NAPL dissolution of trichloroethene (TCE) are summarized, discussed and implemented into a numerical simulator. As systematic data on temperature-dependent TCE solubility, diffusion coefficients and dissolution rates are sparse, a set of high-resolution quasi-2D laboratory NAPL dissolution experiments using TCE was conducted at 10, 20, 40 and 70 °C. Because the experimental data show incomplete dissolution of the residual TCE–NAPL, two different classes of TCE–NAPL blobs representing fast and slow dissolution kinetics were introduced in the model. A good agreement of model simulations and experimental measurements of TCE mass flow rates could thus be obtained for each temperature investigated. The numerical model thus can be applied to simulate kinetic dissolution of residual NAPL source zones in groundwater under variable temperature conditions.

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Acknowledgments

The presented work was performed within the ANGUS+ research project (Grant Number 03EK3022). We acknowledge funding of this project provided by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) through Projektträger Jülich (PTJ) in the context of the Energy storage initiative “Forschungsinitiative Energiespeicher”.

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    Steffi Popp, Christof Beyer, Andreas Dahmke, Nicolas Koproch, Ralf Köber & Sebastian Bauer

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This article is part of a Topical Collection in Environmental Earth Sciences on “Subsurface Energy Storage”, guest edited by Sebastian Bauer, Andreas Dahmke, and Olaf Kolditz.

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Popp, S., Beyer, C., Dahmke, A. et al. Temperature-dependent dissolution of residual non-aqueous phase liquids: model development and verification. Environ Earth Sci 75, 953 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-016-5743-x

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