Movement of pertechnetate through soils: Hydrodynamic dispersion |
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Authors: | Tang Van Hai M van Doorslaer de ten Ryen |
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Institution: | Université Catholique de Louvain, Faculté des Sciences Agronomiques, Département des Sciences du Sol, Place Croix du Sud 2, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium |
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Abstract: | Measurement of the hydrodynamic dispersion of pertechnetate (99TcO?4) migrating towards the water-table complements other investigations of the partition of pertechnetate between soil solution and soil colloids. This study was performed on soil columns equilibrated with distilled water and through which a solution of 99TcO4NH4 or 36ClNa was percolated at constant rate. A theoretical elution curve was adjusted to the experimental points obtained from a sand column. An estimate could thus be made of the parameters characterizing the migration of pertechnetate. The model used here considered the presence of a ‘dead water’ zone in the column into which the solute penetrates by molecular diffusion only at a given rate. The elution curves obtained experimentally and theoretically have been compared with those for a non-reactive anion, 36Cl?. A simulationof the change of pertechnetate concentration in the eluate has been made for increasing values of the retention factor. The calculated curves confirm the very low mobility of this anion in soil. |
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