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Model Development for Analysis of Nitrate Leaching and Its Field Application in a Rural Area  

Suk, Hee-Jun (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
Chon, Chul-Min (Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources)
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Economic and Environmental Geology / v.42, no.6, 2009 , pp. 561-574 More about this Journal
Abstract
Unsaturated/saturated groundwater flow and solute transport model, VSFRT2D(Variable Saturated Flow and Reactive Transport model) was developed considering effects of pumping, irrigation, and denitrification. VSFRT2D employed Richards equation as governing equation for groundwater flow and previously existing unsaturated models modified by including computational procedure of evapotranspiration at surface using Thornthwaite method when precipitation doesn't occur. Bioremediation processes based on monod kinetics are described using four nonlinear contaminant transport equations and three nonlinear microbes transport equations. The developed model was applied to field data in Hongsung area contaminated with nitrate. In order to identify the effect of precipitation, pumping, evapotranspiration, irrigation, fertilizer application, and various bioremediations on groundwater flow and contaminant transport, individual processes were separated and simulated. Then all results obtained from the individual processes are compared with each other. The simulation results show that bioremediation had a negligible effect on nitrate concentration change. However, pumping for irrigation, precipitation, and nitrogen fertilizer application showed profound influences on nitrate concentration change.
Keywords
nitrate; unsaturated/saturated groundwater flow; contaminant transport; VSFRT2D;
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