COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CONTAMINANT FATE AND TRANSPORT IN THE SUBSURFACE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ENV 5044 CONTAMINANT FATE AND TRANSPORT IN THE SUBSURFACE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ALPER ELÇI

Offered to

ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Environmental Engineering
ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY

Course Objective

The main objective of the course is to expose graduate students to fundamental environmental fate and transport processes, with emphasis on ground water and soil systems.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to derive advection-dispersion equation for contaminant transport in saturated soil
2   To be able to estimate breakthrough concentrations and times for contaminants in the subsurface
3   To be able to analyze breakthorugh curves of contaminants
4   To be able to describe terms and concepts related to subsurface hydrology
5   To be able to evaluate column tracer experiments
6   To be able to explain fundamental differences between contaminant mass transport in the saturated versus the unsaturated zone

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction mechanisms of fate and transport; Discrete and continuous concentration averages
2 Moments of concentration distributions and their physical interpretations
3 Conservation of mass; Fick s Law
4 Transport in porous media: Darcy and average linear velocities; advection; diffusion; hydrodynamic dispersion; the advection-dispersion equation
5 Analytical solutions to the ADE
6 Transport in porous media: Peclet number; scale-dependent dispersion
7 Transport in porous media: Adsorption and desorption; retardation factor; chemical reactions
8 1st Mid-term exam
9 Derivation of transport equations: single adsorbed or radioactive species
10 Derivation of transport equations: biodegradation
11 Derivation of transport equations: rate-limited sorption; two reacting species; coupled transport
12 Modeling of subsurface contaminant transport (1)
13 2nd Mid-term exam
14 Modeling of subsurface contaminant transport (2)

Recomended or Required Reading

Fetter, C.W., 1999. Contaminant hydrogeology.
Boulding, J.R. and Ginn J.S. 2004. Soil, vadose zone and ground-water contamination Assessment, Prevention and Remediation. 2nd edition. Lewis Publishers.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Performing in-class applications
Assigning homeworks and providing their solutions

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE 1 MIDTERM EXAM 1
2 MTE 2 MIDTERM EXAM 2
3 ASG ASSIGNMENT
4 RPT REPORT
5 FIN FINAL EXAM
6 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE 1 * 0.20 + MTE 2 * 0.20 + MAKRASG +RPT/2 * 0.20 +FIN * 0.40
7 RST RESIT
8 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE 1 * 0.20 + MTE 2 * 0.20 + ASG +RPT/2 * 0.20 +RST * 0.40


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

Homework assignments are to be submitted at the beginning of class on the designated due date. 20/100 points will be deducted for late submissions.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Dept. of Environmental Engineering, Room A226
Phone and E-mail: (232) 301 7112, alper.elci@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparing assignments 5 12 60
Preparation for midterm exam 2 10 20
Preparation for final exam 1 13 13
Midterm 2 1,5 3
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 140

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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