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Ronny Berndtsson

Professor, Dep Director, MECW Dep Scientific Coordinator

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Reactive solute transport with a variable selectivity coefficient in an undisturbed soil column

Author

  • Kazuro Momii
  • Yoshinari Hiroshiro
  • Kenji Jinno
  • Ronny Berndtsson

Summary, in English

The spatial distribution of major ion concentration limits the predictability of solute sport processes in field soils. Therefore, it is important to analyze solute transport with chemical reactions based on results obtained from field soils and numerical simulation. A simulation model with cation-exchange reactions was developed and applied to solute-transport analysis of an undisturbed field soil. Chemical reaction terms in the convective-dispersive equation were estimated by the Levenberg-Marquardt nonlinear least-squares regression technique to satisfy physical stud chemical processes simultaneously. The reliability of the model was tested with liquid-phase and solid-phase concentrations of measured spatial distributions of Ca2+, Mg2+, Na+, and K+ after continuous infiltration of KCl solution into an undisturbed soft column. The experimental results revealed that the selectivity coefficients for Ca-Na and Co-Mg exchange could be kept constant, while those for Ca-K exchange increased with the equivalent fraction of K+ in the solid phase. The effects of the exchange selectivity coefficient on reactive solute transport are discussed based on the simulation results. When a constant selectivity coefficient was used, the model failed to predict the spatial distributions of cation concentrations in the solid phase. Thus, model predictions can be improved by use of variable instead of constant selectivity coefficients.

Department/s

  • Division of Water Resources Engineering

Publishing year

1997

Language

English

Pages

1539-1546

Publication/Series

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volume

61

Issue

6

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Soil Science Society of Americ

Topic

  • Soil Science

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0361-5995