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Title: Colloid Transport and Colloid-Facilitated Transport in Groundwater


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Colloid Transport and Colloid-Facilitated
Transportin Groundwater
  • Introduction
  • DLVO Theory
  • Stabilization/Transport/Aggregation/Filtration
  • Applications

B.C. Williams, 2009
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Colloids Defined
  • Particles with diameters lt 10 micron, lt 0.45 µ
  • Mineral detrital(as deposited) or autigenic
    (from matrix)
  • Layer silicates
  • Silica Rich Particles
  • Iron oxides
  • Organic e.g. humic macromolecules
  • Humic macromolecules
  • Biocolloids bacteria and viruses

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Groundwater Transport in General
  • Usual conceptual model for groundwater transport
    as follows
  • Dissolved phase
  • Adsorbed phase (onto soil/rock matrix)
  • How a given chemical partitions into these two
    phases is represented by the partition
    coefficient, Kd.

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Groundwater Transport Including
Colloid-Facilitated Transport
  • Three phases
  • Dissolved phase
  • Adsorbed phase (onto soil/rock matrix)
  • Adsorbed onto mobile particles

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Terminology Mechanisms for Retention
  • Attachment adhesion sorption
  • Function of collision, collector efficiency,
    sticking efficiency
  • Mechanical filtration complete retention of
    particles that are larger than all of the soil
    pores (formation of filter cake)
  • Straining physical trapping in geometric
    corners
  • Particles can be smaller than smallest pore
    openings
  • Requires grain-grain contact
  • Only occurs in some fraction of soil pore space,
    transport occurs elsewhere

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Strained versus Mechanically Filtered
dp/d50 ? .005
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Background
  • Clean-bed Filtration Theory
  • Depends on mechanism of attachment / detachment
  • Deviation from Clean Bed Filtration Theory
  • Unfavorable attachment condition neg-neg
  • Fine sand and large colloids (dp/d50 ?
    .005)

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Explanations for Deviation from CFT
  • Attachment w/ porous media charge variability
    Johnson and Elimelech, 1995
  • Attachment w/ heterogeneity in surface charge
    characteristics of colloids Li et al, 2004
  • Attachment w/ deposition of colloids in a
    secondary energy minimum Tufenkji et al. 2003,
    Redman et al., 2004
  • All of the above Tufenkji and Elimelech, 2005
  • Attachment w/ straining Foppen et al, 2005,
    Bradford et al, 2006a, b

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Theory (cont.)
Aqueous Phase Colloid Mass Balance Equation-
Bradford et al., 2003
  • Where
  • ?w volumetric water content -
  • t time T
  • C colloid concentration in the aqueous phase
    N L-3
  • JT total colloid flux N L-2 T-1
  • EattSW colloid attachment mass transfer
    between solid/water phases N L-3 T-1
  • EstrSW colloid straining mass transfer between
    solid/water phases N L-3 T-1

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Colloid-Facilitated Groundwater Transport
Solid matrix
mobile colloid
Adsorbed
Dissolved
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DLVO TheoryDerjaguin, Landau, Verwey, Overbeek
  • The stability of a homogeneous colloidal
    suspension depends upon (stabilitydispersed)
  • Van der Waals attractive forces (promote
    aggregation) http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_der_
    Waals_force
  • Electrostatic repulsive forces that drive
    particles apart
  • If electrostatic dominates, particles are
    electrostatically stabilized (dispersed)

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Figures to Explain DLVO
  • Colloid DLVO Theory
  • http//www.malvern.com/LabEng/industry/colloids/dl
    vo_theory.htm
  • Good figures including ionic strength definition
    http//wefcol.vub.ac.be/wefcol/lectures/hanoi/h1.p
    df

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DLVO - stabilized
  • Colloids are stabilized (in suspension) when
  • Double layers expand (by decreasing electrolyte
    concentration, decreasing ionic strength
  • Net particle charge ? 0
  • Colloids coagulate/aggregate when
  • Double layer shrinks because of increasing ionic
    strength

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Challenges to DLVO
  • Hot controversy in literature on whether spheres
    of like charge always repel. Experimental
    evidence that colloidal electrostatic
    interactions include a long-ranged attractive
    component.
  • http//physics.nyu.edu/grierlab/gold13b/node1.html
  • http//physics.nyu.edu/grierlab/publications.html

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Stabilization and sorbable species
  • Sorbed species can influence surface charge, and
    therefore stability (end of DLVO discussion)
  • Sorbed species can also be mobilized if the
    colloid is mobilized through the soil/rock matrix
    (colloid-facilitated transport!)

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Colloid Transport in General(Saturated and
Unsaturated GW)
  • Detachment / Mobilization / Suspension
  • Transport
  • Aggregation / Filtration / Straining

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Detachment/Mobilization/Suspension
  • Colloids can detach from matrix
  • Biogeochemical weathering
  • Precipitation from solution (thermodyn)
  • Biocolloids or humics flushed from shallow zones
  • If cementing agents dissolve
  • If stable aggregates deflocculate

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Transport
  • More likely if colloid is neg. charged, because
    most soil/rock matrices are neg.
  • Transport optimal if
  • Slow interpore transport rate few collisions
    with side surfaces
  • High velocities in preferential pathways
  • In preferential pathways, may have faster travel
    times than ambient gw flows

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Stabilization/Aggregation
  • Aggregation occurs depending upon charge, and
    when double layer shrinks due to increasing ionic
    strength

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Filtering / Straining
  • Physical filtering due to size, geometry
  • Physicochemical straining surface chemical
    attraction to matrix
  • Cementation agents (iron oxides, carbonates,
    silica)

22
Applications
  • Many engineering ramifications of passage versus
    filtration
  • Colloid-facilitated transport how a
    low-solubility (strongly-sorbed!) contaminant can
    travel miles from the source

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Engineering Applications
  • Wastewater sand filters removal is good,
    too-small particles clog
  • Roads clogging of drain filters ? force buildup
    ? failure
  • Dams matrix piping ? erosion ? 26 of earth dam
    failures
  • ref Reddi, 1997

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Engineering Applications, cont.
  • Petroleum Extraction permeability reduction
    termed formation damage
  • Slurry Walls very fines filtered by fines is
    considered a benefit
  • Lining of Lakes/Reservoirs ditto
  • ref Reddi, 1997

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Colloid-Facilitated Transport
  • When a highly sorptive contaminant (constituent)
    is adsorbed onto colloids
  • Contaminant of interest must have as high or
    higher affinity to sorb as other possible
    constituents
  • Colloid may have patches of surface coatings
    (ferric, aluminum or manganese oxyhydroxides)
    that are best sites

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Colloid Transport in the Unsaturated Zone
  • Colloids may be strained, or retarded, if
    moisture content reduced so that water films have
    thickness less than colloid diameter
  • Colloids may sorb to the air/water interface
  • Called partitioning same Kd.concept

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References
  • Johnson, P.R., Sun, N., and Elimelech, M., 1996.
    Colloid Transport in Geochemically
    Heterogeneous Porous Media, Environmental
    Science and Technology, 30, 3284-3293. 
  • Reddi, L. N., 1997. Particle Transport in Soils
    Review of Significant Processes in Infrastructure
    Systems. J. Infrastructure Systems. 3, 78-86.
  •  McCarthy, J.F., Zachara, J.M., 1989.
    Subsurface Transport of Contaminants.
    Environmental Science and Technology, 23,
    496-502.
  • Wan, J. T.K. Tokunaga, 1998. "Measuring
    partition coefficients of colloids at air-water
    interfaces", Environ. Sci. Technol, 32,
    p3293-3298,
  • Wan, J., Wilson, J.L., 1994. Colloid transport
    in unsaturated porous media. Water Resources
    Research. 30, 857-864.
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