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http://dx.doi.org/10.9720/kseg.2021.3.433

Improvement of Fluid Penetration Efficiency in Soil Using Plasma Blasting  

Baek, In-Joon (Department of Geophysics, Kangwon National University)
Jang, Hyun-Shic (Research Institute for Earth Resources, Kangwon National University)
Song, Jae-Yong (SanHa Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd.)
Lee, Geun-Chun (SanHa Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd.)
Jang, Bo-An (Department of Geophysics, Kangwon National University)
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The Journal of Engineering Geology / v.31, no.3, 2021 , pp. 433-445 More about this Journal
Abstract
Plasma blasting by high voltage arc discharge were performed in laboratory-scale soil samples to investigate the fluid penetration efficiency. A plasma blasting device with a large-capacity capacitor and columnar soil samples with a diameter of 80 cm and a height of 60 cm were prepared. Columnar soil samples consist of seven A-samples mixed with sand and silt by ratio of 7:3 and three B-samples by ratio of 9:1. When fluid was injected into A-sample by pressure without plasma blasting, fluid penetrated into soil only near around the borehole, and penetration area ratio was less than 5%. Fluid was injected by plasma blasting with three different discharge energies of 1 kJ, 4 kJ and 9 kJ. When plasma blasting was performed once in the A-samples, penetration area ratios of the fluid were 16-25%. Penetration area ratios were 30-48% when blastings were executed five times consecutively. The largest penetration area by plasma blasting was 9.6 times larger than that by fluid injection by pressure. This indicates that the higher discharge energy of plasma blasting and the more numbers of blasting are, the larger are fluid penetration areas. When five consecutive plasma blasting were carried out in B-sample, fluid penetration area ratios were 33-59%. Penetration areas into B-samples were 1.1-1.4 times larger than those in A-samples when test conditions were the same, indicating that the higher permeability of soil is, the larger is fluid penetration area. The fluid penetration radius was calculated to figure out fluid penetration volume. When the fluid was injected by pressure, the penetration radius was 9 cm. Whereas, the penetration radius was 27-30 cm when blasting were performed 5 times with energy of 9 kJ. The radius increased up to 333% by plasma blasting. All these results indicate that cleaning agent penetrates further and remediation efficiency of contaminated soil will be improved if plasma blasting technology is applied to in situ cleaning of contaminated soil with low permeability.
Keywords
ark discharge; plasma blasting; discharge energy; fluid penetration efficiency; penetration radius; contaminated soil; cleaning efficiency;
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