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Geological Journal of China Universities ›› 2023, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (4): 608-616.DOI: 10.16108/j.issn1006-7493.2021108

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Influence of Fuel Pollution on Hydrogeological Parameters of Porous Media

YANG Pengfei1,CHEN Yudao1*,JIANG Yaping1,2,YAN Jianing1,2,ZHENG Gao1,2,ZOU Zhikun1,LIU Quan1,QIN Jiaxiao1#br#   

  1. 1. Collaborative Innovation Center for Water Pollution Control and Water Safety in Karst Area, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, China;
    2. Technical Innovation Center of Mine Geological Environmental Restoration Engineering in Southern Karst Area, Nanning 530031, China
  • Online:2023-08-15 Published:2023-08-15

Abstract: Influence of fuel pollution on groundwater environment is an important subject. Investigating the hydrogeological parameters of contaminated sites will be helpful to understand the changes of hydrogeological parameters before and after pollution, as well as changes of the migration behavior of contaminants in groundwater. To compare the differences of parameters before and after gasoline contamination and evaluate the impacts of gasoline contamination on hydrogeological parameters, three stages of quantitative tracer experiments in sand-tank were performed. The results show that: (1) the accumulation of gasoline contamination leads to the occurrence of bioclogging, and the degree of bioclogging tends to slow down with the increasing percolation distance; there exist differences in solute dispersion in different regions of porous media, and increased solute flux in the dominant flow on the central line and the mass recovery rate ; the solute Breakthrough Curves show a lean-high pattern and a clear trailing. (2) by monitoring the gasoline contamination for 6 years, it is found that the permeability coefficients of traditional gasoline tank (TG-tank) and ethanol gasoline tank (EG-tank) were 25.4 and 20.5 m/d, respectively, which decreased to 61% and 49% of the initial permeability coefficient KII before the sand tank was contaminated; the effective porosity of TG-tank and EGtank was reduced from the initial value of 0.30 to 0.28 and 0.26, respectively. Hydrodynamic dispersion coefficient also tended to decrease. The permeability of porous media is reduced more significantly by ethanol gasoline pollution. The accumulation of organic contamination will change the hydrogeological parameters of the contaminated site, and strengthening studies of hydrogeological parameters after contamination can provide a reasonable basis for evaluating the contamination risk.

Key words: hydrogeological parameters, bioclogging, groundwater pollution, LNAPL, time moment, tracer tests

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