The main scope of the Water Quality Management course is to provide students with the basic knowledge of the physical and biogeochemical mechanisms controlling the quality of groundwater (flow and contaminant transport modeling in groundwater). Furthermore the course addresses the assessment of contamination level, health risk and groundwater remediation systems.
Water Quality Management course is part of the master's degree program in "Civil Engineering for Protection from Natural Risks", whose objective is to train civil engineers with high professional qualifications for the protection from hydrogeological and seismic risks.
Within the framework of this course, the course aims to provide an in-depth knowledge of 1) flood legislation; 2) contamination sources in natural and anthropic environments; 3) main physical mechanisms of contaminant transport in groundwater and soils; 4) modelling of solute transport in environmental systems most popular computational tools flow and transport modeling in groundwater; 5) health risk due to contaminated groundwater; 6) main groundwater remediation systems.
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to 1) identify fundamental criteria and restrictions for the assessment of the environmental concentration and the related health risk ; 2) develop an hydrological/hydraulic model for the study of a contaminated site; 3) perform simulations exploring different contamination scenarios; 4) identify the most appropriate solution for groundwater remediation; 6) prepare project report and drawings.
Water Quality Management course is part of the master's degree program in "Civil Engineering for Protection from Natural Risks", whose objective is to train civil engineers with high professional qualifications for the protection from hydrogeological and seismic risks.
Within the framework of this course, the course aims to provide an in-depth knowledge of 1) flood legislation; 2) contamination sources in natural and anthropic environments; 3) main physical mechanisms of contaminant transport in groundwater and soils; 4) modelling of solute transport in environmental systems most popular computational tools flow and transport modeling in groundwater; 5) health risk due to contaminated groundwater; 6) main groundwater remediation systems.
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to 1) identify fundamental criteria and restrictions for the assessment of the environmental concentration and the related health risk ; 2) develop an hydrological/hydraulic model for the study of a contaminated site; 3) perform simulations exploring different contamination scenarios; 4) identify the most appropriate solution for groundwater remediation; 6) prepare project report and drawings.
scheda docente
materiale didattico
a. The contamination problem in the society development;
b. Contaminant sources
c. Contaminant classification
2. SOLUTE TRANSPORT IN AQUIFERS
a. The flow problem
b. The transport problem
c. Advection Dispersion Equation
d. Basic concepts of geostatistics and stochastic modeling
3. TRANSPORT OF REACTIVE SOLUTE
a. Classification of reactions (Rubin J.)
b. Sorption of water-soluble compounds
c. Sorption of hydrophobic compounds
d. Homogeneous reactions
e. Radioactive decay
f. Biodegradation
4. TRANSPORT OF SOLUTE IN THE VADOSE ZONE
a. The flow equations
b. Transport of non reactive solutes
c. Transport of reactive solutes
5. MULTIPHASE FLOW
a. Intrinsic permeability and the flow equations
b. DNAPL, LNAPL
6. MONITORING
a. Sampling thechniques
b. designing of a contaminated site system
7. REMEDIATION STRATEGIES
a. Contaminant source control and remediation
b. Contaminant plume control and remediation
8. HEALTH RISK
a. Health risk definition (EPA procedure)
9. HEAT TRANSPORT
a. Heat transport in GW
EXERCICE
Numerical modeling of a contaminant plume and simulation of remediation strategies
b) Ingegneria degli acquiferi, A. Di Molfetta e R. Sethi, Springer, Milan, 2012, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-1851-8
Programma
1. INTRODUCTIONa. The contamination problem in the society development;
b. Contaminant sources
c. Contaminant classification
2. SOLUTE TRANSPORT IN AQUIFERS
a. The flow problem
b. The transport problem
c. Advection Dispersion Equation
d. Basic concepts of geostatistics and stochastic modeling
3. TRANSPORT OF REACTIVE SOLUTE
a. Classification of reactions (Rubin J.)
b. Sorption of water-soluble compounds
c. Sorption of hydrophobic compounds
d. Homogeneous reactions
e. Radioactive decay
f. Biodegradation
4. TRANSPORT OF SOLUTE IN THE VADOSE ZONE
a. The flow equations
b. Transport of non reactive solutes
c. Transport of reactive solutes
5. MULTIPHASE FLOW
a. Intrinsic permeability and the flow equations
b. DNAPL, LNAPL
6. MONITORING
a. Sampling thechniques
b. designing of a contaminated site system
7. REMEDIATION STRATEGIES
a. Contaminant source control and remediation
b. Contaminant plume control and remediation
8. HEALTH RISK
a. Health risk definition (EPA procedure)
9. HEAT TRANSPORT
a. Heat transport in GW
EXERCICE
Numerical modeling of a contaminant plume and simulation of remediation strategies
Testi Adottati
a) Contaminant Hydrogeology, C.W. Fetter, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J., 1999. ISBN 10: 0137512155 / ISBN 13: 9780137512157b) Ingegneria degli acquiferi, A. Di Molfetta e R. Sethi, Springer, Milan, 2012, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-1851-8
Modalità Erogazione
face-to-face courseModalità Valutazione
During the exam the exercise and 2 other topics will be discussed