Michela Acocella
Conservative and reactive transport of oxygen at the groundwater/atmosphere interface: experiments and model-based interpretation.
Rel. Rajandrea Sethi, Massimo Rolle, Navid Ahmadi. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Per L'Ambiente E Il Territorio, 2021
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Oxygen is an important component in the subsurface because it significantly influences biogeochemical processes such as subsurface redox conditions, geochemical reactions rate, metabolic activity of aerobic microbes, and, consequently, the overall groundwater quality. The atmosphere represents an unlimited source of oxygen that triggers the migration of O2 toward terrestrial environments. The atmosphere also provides a sink for water vapor that drives water flux from the soil surface (i.e. soil water evaporation), leading to soil drying. This process influences the exchange of components like oxygen at the soil/atmosphere interface and control their migration mechanisms in the subsurface. This study aims to address the oxygen transport in the subsurface by considering the dynamics and interactions occurring in a coupled atmosphere/subsurface compartment.
To this end, a set of column experiments were performed to study the diffusive transport of oxygen under conservative and reactive conditions in three different soils with and without considering the dynamic forcing from the atmosphere
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