Simulation of Removal of MTBE in Groundwater by Biosparging

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Biosparging is one of the effective in situ-technology to removal the organic contaminants. The experiments of removing MTBE by biosparging were carried out in a soil column. the results showed that there were the tailing of contaminants in the column without microorganism according with the microorganism. The removal of organic contaminants by biosparging was simulated by a mathematical model, which considered the advective flux, diffusion, mechanical dispersion, interphase mass transfer and biodegrade. The simulation results agreed with the experimental results well.

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