FLUX AND TRANSPORT STUDY OF PURE GASOLINE AND GASOLINE BLENDED ETHANOL IN UNSATURATED POROUS MEDIA / ESTUDO DO FLUXO E TRANSPORTE DE GASOLINA PURA E MISTURADA COM ETANOL EM MEIOS POROSOS NÃO SATURADOS
AUTOR(ES)
GUILHERME BARROS DE CASTRO FILHO
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2007
RESUMO
The subsurface release of water immiscible pollutants (NAPLs) due to leaks in storage tanks or pipelines and spilling transportation accidents is of great concern, since the NAPL or its constituents may migrate through the vadose zone until reaching the water table and eventually contaminate clean water sources. In Brazil, most of the gas stations store ethanol, pure and gasoline blended ethanol, diesel, among others in tanks. A spill or leak of petroleum hydrocarbons, known as LNAPL (light Nonaqueous phase liquid), combined with ethanol has a major contamination potential associated to cosolvency effects. The motivation of this work is that many studies have been developed with special interest in the saturated zone and little is known about the behavior of these pollutants in the vadose zone (McDowell e Powers, 2003 e Österreicher et al., 2007). Thus, one dimensional column tests were performed in a glass porous media to simulate the spill of hydrocarbons in the subsurface and compare the retained mass of benzene in the porous media after a release of a pure or ethanol blended gasoline. In order to evaluate these 1D tests results, the Hydrocarbon Spill Screening Model - HSSM (Weaver et al., 1994) was used. This program can be found in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) website. A model was also implemented to consider the cosolvency effects in function of the ethanol addition in Brazilian`s commercial gasoline. The laboratory`s results were compared with the ones obtained by the model mentioned above and showed a satisfactory approximation for the prediction of the contaminant behavior.
ASSUNTO(S)
solo nao saturado gasolina column tests vadose zone zona vadosa ensaio de coluna unsaturated soil gasoline
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