CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT AND SITE REMEDIATION

Academic Year 2016/2017 - 2° Year
Teaching Staff: Federico VAGLIASINDI
Credit Value: 9
Scientific field: ICAR/03 - Sanitary and environmental engineering
Taught classes: 54 hours
Term / Semester:

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.