Answered: Retardation factor

Structural Analysis

6th Edition

ISBN:9781337630931

Author:KASSIMALI, Aslam.

Publisher:KASSIMALI, Aslam.

Chapter2: Loads On Structures

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 1P

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Dissolved Napthalene contamination is dissolved in groundwater within an aquifer soil bulk density of soil is 2.8 gm/cc, fraction organic content (foc) of soil is 0.01, and the Organic Carbon Partition Coefficient (Koc) looked up in the textbook as done on prior problems. The formation porosity is 0.2.

Perform the following calculations and enter your numerical answer for part b):

a) Retardation factor

b) Estimated average velocity, in meters per year, of the dissolved Naphthalene in an aquifer with an advective velocity of 500 meters per year.

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