Geochemical and Biogeochemical Reaction ModelingThis book provides a comprehensive overview of reaction processes in the Earth's crust and on its surface, both in the laboratory and in the field. A clear exposition of the underlying equations and calculation techniques is balanced by a large number of fully worked examples. The book uses The Geochemist's Workbench® modeling software, developed by the author and already installed at over 1000 universities and research facilities worldwide. Since publication of the first edition, the field of reaction modeling has continued to grow and find increasingly broad application. In particular, the description of microbial activity, surface chemistry, and redox chemistry within reaction models has become broader and more rigorous. These areas are covered in detail in this new edition, which was originally published in 2007. This text is written for graduate students and academic researchers in the fields of geochemistry, environmental engineering, contaminant hydrology, geomicrobiology, and numerical modeling. |
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... simulated the reactions that occur as a spring water evaporates. They began by calculating the distribution of species in the spring water, and then repeatedly re- moved an aliquot of water and recomputed the species distribution. From ...
... simulated the reactions that occur as a spring water evaporates. They began by calculating the distribution of species in the spring water, and then repeatedly re- moved an aliquot of water and recomputed the species distribution. From ...
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... simulate the effects of dispersive mixing . Dispersion is the physical process by which groundwaters mix in the subsurface ( Freeze and Cherry , 1979 ) . With mixing , the groundwaters react with each other 444 Fig . 2.7 . “ Flush ...
... simulate the effects of dispersive mixing . Dispersion is the physical process by which groundwaters mix in the subsurface ( Freeze and Cherry , 1979 ) . With mixing , the groundwaters react with each other 444 Fig . 2.7 . “ Flush ...
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... equilibrium models is the dump option ( Wolery , 1979 ) . Here , once the equilibrium state of the initial system is determined , the minerals Fig. 2.9. Use of a “flush” model to simulate dispersive. 2.2 Configurations of reaction models ...
... equilibrium models is the dump option ( Wolery , 1979 ) . Here , once the equilibrium state of the initial system is determined , the minerals Fig. 2.9. Use of a “flush” model to simulate dispersive. 2.2 Configurations of reaction models ...
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... simulate dispersive mixing. Two fluids enter a unit vol- ume of an aquifer where they react with each other and minerals in the aquifer, displacing the mixed and reacted fluid. in the system are jettisoned. The minerals present in the ...
... simulate dispersive mixing. Two fluids enter a unit vol- ume of an aquifer where they react with each other and minerals in the aquifer, displacing the mixed and reacted fluid. in the system are jettisoned. The minerals present in the ...
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... simulate scaling. The pore fluid is initially in equi- librium with minerals in the formation. As the fluid enters the wellbore, the minerals are isolated (dumped) from the system. The fluid then follows a polythermal, sliding-fugacity ...
... simulate scaling. The pore fluid is initially in equi- librium with minerals in the formation. As the fluid enters the wellbore, the minerals are isolated (dumped) from the system. The fluid then follows a polythermal, sliding-fugacity ...
Contents
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29 | |
Solving for the equilibrium state | 53 |
Changing the basis | 71 |
6 | 73 |
7 | 101 |
8 | 111 |
Sorption and ion exchange | 137 |
Reactive transport | 301 |
Hydrothermal fluids | 319 |
Geothermometry | 341 |
Evaporation | 357 |
Sediment diagenesis | 373 |
Kinetics of waterrock interaction | 387 |
Weathering | 405 |
Oxidation and reduction | 415 |
10 | 155 |
11 | 166 |
12 | 181 |
Mass transfer | 193 |
Polythermal fixed and sliding paths | 201 |
Geochemical buffers | 217 |
Kinetics of dissolution and precipitation | 231 |
Redox kinetics | 245 |
Microbial kinetics | 257 |
Stable isotopes | 269 |
Transport in flowing groundwater | 285 |
Waste injection wells | 427 |
Petroleum reservoirs | 435 |
Acid drainage | 449 |
Contamination and remediation | 461 |
Microbial communities | 471 |
Sources of modeling software | 485 |
Evaluating the HMW activity model | 491 |
Minerals in the LLNL database | 499 |
Nonlinear rate laws | 507 |
Index | 536 |
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Page 379 - ... present day because erosion has reduced the elevation of the basin's western margin. Paleohydrologic models calculated for the basin (Lee and Bethke, 1994) suggest that in the Eocene groundwater flowed eastward through the Lyons at an estimated discharge of about 1 m/yr. Flow in the Pennsylvania!! Fountain formation, a sandstone aquifer that underlies the Lyons and is separated from it by an aquitard complex, was more restricted because the formation grades into less permeable dolomites and evaporites...