CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT AND SITE REMEDIATION
Academic Year 2017/2018 - 2° YearCredit Value: 9
Scientific field: ICAR/03 - Sanitary and environmental engineering
Taught classes: 42 hours
Exercise: 45 hours
Term / Semester: 1°
Learning Objectives
Knowledge on contaminant transport and site remediation with references to legal, technical and scientific issues.
Detailed Course Content
National and international regulations and directives;
Site assessment: direct and indirect characterizazion activities;
Field visits to contaminate site under remediation;
Risk assessment and evaluation;
Contaminants and contaminant transport: advection, diffussion, attenuation;
Nature of soils and contaminant behavior
Transport modelling;
Case studies;
Landfill closure
Phytoremediation, soil washing; soil flushing
Thermal treatment;
STabilization solidification processes;
Soil vapor extraction (SVE) e bioventing (BV); Biopiles e bioslurries.
Acquifer remediation: airsparging (AS); pump & treat (P&T); dual phase extraction (DPE). Permeable reactive barriers (PRB).;
Brownfield regeneration
Textbook Information
Boni, Collivignarelli, Vagliasindi. Siti contaminati: esperienze negli interventi di risanamento. Edizioni CSISA onlus.