Catalog Description: Geo-technical applications to environmental problems, groundwater flow, soil contamination and groundwater contamination and groundwater contaminate transport, geosynthetics and stability of landfill design, control of contaminated sites.
Pre-requisite(s):
CEG 4101C
Designation: Elective
Contribution of course to meeting the Professional Component:
| Math & Science Topic | 0.0 credit hours |
| Engineering Topics | 3.0 credit hours |
| General Education Topics | 0.0 credit hours |
| Class Schedule: | Laboratory Schedule: | ||
| Number of sessions per week | 2 | Number of sessions per week | NA |
| Duration of each session | 75 mins | Duration of each session | NA |
Course Objectives:
· Concepts of ground water flow and creation of confined aquifers, steady
state and transient saturated flow, and Dupuit equation.
· Confined and unconfined steady state radial flow to a well hydraulics.
Radial flow in a leaky aquifer.
· Sources and mechanics of ground water contamination. Leakages of underground
storage tanks and leachates of hazardous waste landfills.
· Contaminant transport mechanisms by advection processes and diffusion
and dispersion processes. Derivation of Advection - Dispersion equation for
solute transport with one and two- dimensional models.
· Hydraulic Properties of municipal solid waste and mineral waste. Laboratory
tests and data measurements.
· Site investigation and control of subsurface migration, in-situ treatment
and site control methodologies. Slurry wall application, leachate collection,
and infiltration control technologies.
· Concepts of geomembranes and applications of geosynthetic liners for
landfill design. Leakage of liners and covers, slope stability of landfill design
using sliding wedge analysis.
Topics:
· Introduction to ground water contamination and sources of mineral and
industrial wastes.
· Ground water Hydrology: Confined and unconfined aquifers, steady-state
and transient flow, Dupuit equation in an unconfined aquifer.
· Ground water flow and well mechanics: Confined and unconfined steady
radial flow to a well. Unsteady well hydraulics by Theis method and Cooper-Jacob
method.
· Contaminant transport mechanisms: Derivation of the equations on advection
process and diffusion and dispersion processes in one-dimensional models and
two-dimensional modeling.
· Site investigation: Ground water sampling and soil core monitoring.
· Control of subsurface migration: In-situ treatment by solution mining,
neutralization and detoxification, stripping and aeration, and microbial degradation.
Contaminated site control by slurry wall applications, leachate collection system
from landfill design, infiltration control technologies, groundwater diversion,
and removal of soil and contaminants.
· Design of waste landfills: Test methods of geomembranes, slope stability
and landfill slope design. Application of geosynthatics to landfills.
Textbook(s):
Geotechnology of Waste Management, 2nd Edition, by Oweis and Khera. PWS, 1998
ISBN 0-534-94524-4
Reference(s):
· Ground Water Contamination Transport and Remediation, by Bedient, Rifai,
and Newell, Prentice Hall, 1994.
· Subsurface Migration of Hazardous Wastes, by Devinny, Everett, Lu,
and Stollar, Van Nosttrand Reinhald, 1990.
· Designing with Geosynthetics, by Koerner, Prentice Hall, 4th Edition,
1998.
Relationship of the
course to Program Outcomes:
This is a graduate course that is an acceptable elective for the undergraduate
program. It addresses the following program outcomes for the undergraduate programs:
1, 4 and 10.