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Creator:: Niemet, Michael R., Rockhold, Mark L., Weisbrod, Noam, and Selker, John S.
Abstract:: Liquid saturation and gas-liquid interfacial area are important parameters for evaluating the transport and fate of contaminants in unsaturated subsurface environments. Recent findings indicate that interfacial surface area controls the relative degree of transmitted light in laboratory systems containing translucent porous media. Equations are derived to estimate the specific gas-liquid...
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Full Text:: saturated porous media Michael R. Niemet,1,2 Mark L. Rockhold,1,3 Noam Weisbrod,1,4 and John S. Selker1

Creator:: Weisbrod, Noam, Niemet, Michael R., McGinnis, Thomas, and Selker, John S.
Abstract:: Water vapor transport in the vicinity of imbibing saline solutions was investigated in two-dimensional (2-D) chambers using a light transmission technique. Concentrated NaNO3 solutions (brines) were applied as point sources to the surface of homogenous packs of prewetted silica sand for four different sand grades. The same solutions were applied...
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Full Text:: Thomas McGinnis, and John S. Selker Department of Bioengineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis

Creator:: Weisbrod, Noam, McGinnis, Thomas, Rockhold, Mark L., Niemet, Michael R., and Selker, John S.
Abstract:: Surface tensions of high-salinity solutions are significantly different from those of pure water. Our objective was to develop and test a methodology to determine whether these surface tension effects predictably alter imbibition into dry and moist porous media. Static and dynamic experiments were performed using four grades of quartz sand...
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Full Text:: Michael R. Niemet,4 and John S. Selker2 Received 29 February 2008; revised 7 June 2009; accepted 22 June

Creator:: Nachshon, Uri, Shahraeeni, Ebrahim, Or, Dani, Dragila, Maria, and Weisbrod, Noam
Abstract:: Evaporation of saline solutions from porous media, common in arid areas, involves complex interactions between mass transport, energy exchange and phase transitions. We quantified evaporation of saline solutions from heterogeneous sand columns under constant hydraulic boundary conditions to focus on effects of salt precipitation on evaporation dynamics. Mass loss measurements...
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Full Text:: Robinson, 1949; Robinson and Stokes, 1959]. Experiment duration was 100 and 50 h for the low and high-PE

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