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A Study of Hydrodynamic Dispersions in the Unsaturated and the Saturated Zone of a Multi-soil Layer Deposit Using a Continuous Injection Tracer Test  

Chung, Sang-Yong (Department of Environmental Geosciences, Pukyong National University)
Kang, Dong-Hwan (Department of Environmental Geosciences, Pukyong National University)
Lee, Min-Hee (Department of Environmental Geosciences, Pukyong National University)
Son, Joo-Hyong (Environmental Geology Team, Korea Rural Community & Agriculture Corporation)
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Journal of Soil and Groundwater Environment / v.11, no.4, 2006 , pp. 48-56 More about this Journal
Abstract
Using a continuous injection tracer test at a multi-soil layer deposit, the difference of hydrodynamic dispersions in unsaturated and saturated zones were analyzed through breakthrough curves of Rhodamine WT, linear regression of concentration versus time, concentration variation rates versus time, and concentration ratio according to the distance from injection well. As a result of continuous injection tracer test, the difference of the maximum concentrations of Rhodamine WT in unsaturated and saturated zones were 13-15 times after 160 hours, and the increased rate of concentration versus time in unsaturated zone was about 10 times higher than in saturated zone. The fluctuation of Rhodamine WT breakthrough curve and concentration variation rate with time in saturated zone were larger than in unsaturated zone. Rhodamine WT concentration ratio with the distance from the injection well in saturation zone was linearly decreased faster than in unsaturated zone, and the elapsed time necessary for the concentration ratio less than 2 was longer in saturation zone. The differences resulted from the lower concentration and slower hydrodynamic dispersion of Rhodamine WT at the saturation zone of the multi-soil layer deposit, in which groundwater flow significantly flow and aquifer materials have high hydraulic heterogeneity. Effective porosity, longitudinal and transverse dispersivities were estimated $10.19{\sim}10.50%,\;0.80{\sim}1.98m$ and $0.02{\sim}0.04m$, respectively. The field longitudinal dispersivity is over 12 times larger than the laboratory longitudinal dispersivity by the scale-dependent effect.
Keywords
Continuous injection tracer test; Unsaturated zone; Saturated zone; Hydrodynamic dispersion; Breakthrough curve; Dispersivity; Scale-dependent effect;
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