CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT AND SITE REMEDIATION

Academic Year 2021/2022 - 2° Year
Teaching Staff: Federico VAGLIASINDI
Credit Value: 9
Scientific field: ICAR/03 - Sanitary and environmental engineering
Taught classes: 42 hours
Exercise: 45 hours
Term / Semester:

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. 2021