CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT AND SITE REMEDIATION
Academic Year 2019/2020 - 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.
Course Structure
Front Lectures and presentation of case studies
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. 2018