Instructors: Evangelos Voudrias
Course Code: ΟΕΑ4ΕΠ
Semester: 9th
Weekly teaching hours: 3
ECTS credits: 5
Prerequisites: Aquatic chemistry, Mathematics-I, Unit operations, Unit processes
Course offered to Erasmus students: Yes
Course URL: https://eclass.duth.gr/courses/ TMC291/
Learning Outcomes:
1. Knowledge based:
- The objective of the course is to present a quantitative treatment from the design point of view of the most important technologies, used for remediation of soil and groundwater contaminated with hazardous waste. The emphasis is on in-situ technologies.
- Understanding the behavior of dissolved and non-aqueous phase contaminants in soil and groundwater.
- Understanding the methodology for risk assessment and remediation of uncontrolled landfills.
- Understanding the approach to solution of typical environmental problems from mining activities.
General Skills:
- Following the successful completion of this course, the student will be in a position to evaluate, combine and select the different remediation technologies, which were mentioned above.
- Ability to compute contaminant transport in subsurface systems.
- Ability to conduct basic calculations required for preliminary design of remediation technologies, which were mentioned above.
- Ability to conduct risk assessment calculations for uncontrolled landfills.
Course Content:
1. Solute mass transfer in saturated porous media
2. Advection-dispersion-sorption-reaction equation – initial and boundary conditions – analytical solutions
3. Control of contamination source
4. Overview presentation of groundwater remediation technologies (pump-and-treat, in-situ chemical treatment, in-situ biological treatment, in-situ stripping, bioslurping)
5. Pump-and-treat of contaminated groundwater
6. Non-Aqueous Phase Liquids in subsurface systems: Movement and physical-chemical behavior
7. In-situ active walls and “funnel and gate” systems
8. Bioremediation of contaminated groundwater
9. Overview presentation of soil remediation technologies (thermal treatment, physical-chemical treatment, biological treatment, phytoremediation, natural attenuation)
10. Soil vapor extraction
11. Soil bioremediation technologies
12. Uncontrolled landfill remediation: risk assessment
13. Uncontrolled landfill remediation: technologies
14. Approach to solution of environmental problems from mining activities – I
15. Approach to solution of environmental problems from mining activities – II.
Suggested Bibliography: :
- Voudrias, E.A. “Soil and groundwater remediation from hazardous waste”, class notes published by Democritus University of Thrace
