Examining Fate and Transport of Heavy Metal in Landfill Site through Numerical Environmental Multimedia Modeling Approach
This article has a reply.
VIEW THE REPLYPublication: Journal of Environmental Engineering
Volume 146, Issue 5
Abstract
In this study, the environmental multimedia model (EMM) is extended for assessing the heavy metal in a contaminated site. Using numerical analysis, the EMM is advanced as a numerical EMM system (NEMMS) including three computational modules for the source zone, unsaturated zone, and groundwater zone. The NEMMS incorporates a finite-difference method (FDM), finite-element method (FEM), and analytical solutions to analyze the transport of heavy metals in the environment. Additionally, Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) is conducted based on sensitivity analysis to quantify the propagation of parameter uncertainty for in-depth risk assessment. In the case study, the modeling results from both the numerical and analytical methods correspond well to the measured data. The FEM provides better results than FDM under the same conditions for the case study. The most sensitive parameters in the soil and groundwater zones are found to be the retardation factor and hydraulic conductivity. This indicates that the developed NEMMS can provide better spatial and temporal accuracy in assessing the chemical risks to the connected environmental media.
Get full access to this article
View all available purchase options and get full access to this article.
Data Availability Statement
Some or all data, models, or code generated or used during the study are proprietary or confidential in nature and may only be provided with restrictions.
Acknowledgments
This study was supported in part by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
References
Abdel-Salam, A., and C. V. Chrysikopoulos. 1995. “Analysis of a model for contaminant transport in fractured media in the presence of colloids.” J. Hydrol. 165 (1–4): 261–281. https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-1694(94)02557-R.
Albani, R. A. S., and V. V. L. Albani. 2019. “Tikhonov-type regularization and the finite element method applied to point source estimation in the atmosphere.” Atmos. Environ. 211 (Aug): 69–78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2019.04.063.
Bailey, R. T., E. D. Morway, R. G. Niswonger, and T. K. Gates. 2013. “Modeling variably saturated multispecies reactive groundwater solute transport with MODFLOW-UZF and RT3D.” Ground Water 51 (5): 752–761. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-6584.2012.01009.x.
Bou-Zeid, E., and M. El-Fadel. 2004. “Parametric sensitivity analysis of leachate transport simulations at landfills.” Waste Manage. (Oxford) 24 (7): 681–689. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2004.03.004.
Çamur, M. Z., and H. Yazicigil. 2005. “Laboratory determination of multicomponent effective diffusion coefficients for heavy metals in a compacted clay.” Turk. J. Earth Sci. 14 (1): 91–103.
CCME (Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment). 1999. “Canadian environmental quality guidelines.” Accessed June 20, 2018. http://ceqg-rcqe.ccme.ca/en/index.html#void.
Chen, Z., and J. Yuan. 2009. “An extended environmental multimedia modeling system (EEMMS) for landfill case studies.” Environ. Forensics 10 (4): 336–346. https://doi.org/10.1080/15275920903347396.
Chen, Z., L. Zhao, and K. Lee. 2010. “Environmental risk assessment of offshore produced water discharges using a hybrid fuzzy-stochastic modeling approach.” Environ. Modell. Software 25 (6): 782–792. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2010.01.001.
Cho, E., G. B. Arhonditsis, J. Khim, S. Chung, and T.-Y. Heo. 2016. “Modeling metal-sediment interaction processes: Parameter sensitivity assessment and uncertainty analysis.” Environ. Modell. Software 80 (Jun): 159–174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2016.02.026.
Coats, K., and B. Smith. 1964. “Dead-end pore volume and dispersion in porous media.” Soc. Pet. Eng. J. 4 (1): 73–84. https://doi.org/10.2118/647-PA.
Cohen, Y., and E. J. Cooter. 2002. “Multimedia environmental distribution of toxics (Mend-Tox). I: Hybrid compartmental-spatial modeling framework.” Pract. Period. Hazard. Toxic Radioact. Waste Manage. 6 (2): 70–86. https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)1090-025X(2002)6:2(70).
Csiszar, S. A., S. M. Daggupaty, S. Verkoeyen, A. Giang, and M. L. Diamond. 2013. “SO-MUM: A coupled atmospheric transport and multimedia model used to predict intraurban-scale PCB and PBDE emissions and fate.” Environ. Sci. Technol. 47 (1): 436–445. https://doi.org/10.1021/es3033023.
Dokou, Z., V. Karagiorgi, G. P. Karatzas, N. P. Nikolaidis, and N. Kalogerakis. 2016. “Large scale groundwater flow and hexavalent chromium transport modeling under current and future climatic conditions: The case of Asopos River Basin.” Environ. Sci. Pollut. Res. 23 (6): 5307–5321. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-015-5771-1.
Domenico, P. 1987. “An analytical model for multidimensional transport of a decaying contaminant species.” J. Hydrol. 91 (1–2): 49–58. https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-1694(87)90127-2.
Domínguez-Morueco, N., M. L. Diamond, J. Sierra, M. Schuhmacher, J. L. Domingo, and M. Nadal. 2016. “Application of the multimedia urban model to estimate the emissions and environmental fate of PAHs in Tarragona County, Catalonia, Spain.” Sci. Total Environ. 573 (Dec): 1622–1629. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.09.163.
Franz Environmental Inc. 2012. “Correctional services Canada (CSC)–Drumheller Institution No. 530 landfill remediation: Environmental assessment report.” Accessed June 20, 2018. https://buyandsell.gc.ca/procurement-data/tender-notice/PW-PWZ-102-8195?order=php&sort=asc.
Genc, A., and E. Ulupinar. 2010. “Transport of lead () ions through silty-clayey soils under acidic conditions.” Transp. Porous Media 84 (3): 699–709. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-010-9535-6.
Gusev, A., E. Mantseva, V. Shatalov, and B. Strukov. 2005. “Regional multicompartment model MSCE-POP.” Accessed April 10, 2018. http://en.msceast.org/index.php/j-stuff/msce-pop.
Hansen, K., J. Christensen, J. Brandt, L. Frohn, and C. Geels. 2004. “Modelling atmospheric transport of -hexachlorocyclohexane in the Northern Hemispherewith a 3-D dynamical model: DEHM-POP.” Atmos. Chem. Phys. 4 (4): 1125–1137. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-4-1125-2004.
Hu, M., X. Liu, X. Wu, F. Dong, J. Xu, W. Chen, and Y. Zheng. 2017. “Characterization of the fate and distribution of ethiprole in water-fish-sediment microcosm using a fugacity model.” Sci. Total Environ. 576 (Jan): 696–704. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.10.087.
Ii, H. 1995. “Effective porosity and longitudinal dispersivity of sedimentary rocks determined by laboratory and field tracer tests.” Environ. Geol. 25 (2): 71–85. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00767863.
Islam, M. S., M. K. Ahmed, M. Raknuzzaman, M. Habibullah-Al-Mamun, and M. K. Islam. 2015. “Heavy metal pollution in surface water and sediment: A preliminary assessment of an urban river in a developing country.” Ecol. Indic. 48 (Jan): 282–291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.08.016.
Jaishankar, M., T. Tseten, N. Anbalagan, B. B. Mathew, and K. N. Beeregowda. 2014. “Toxicity, mechanism and health effects of some heavy metals.” Interdiscip. Toxicol. 7 (2): 60–72. https://doi.org/10.2478/intox-2014-0009.
Kim, J. H., B. K. Kwak, C. B. Shin, W. J. Jeon, H.-S. Park, K. Choi, and J. Yi. 2010. “Spatial distribution multimedia fate model: Numerical aspects and ability for spatial analysis.” Appl. Math. Modell. 34 (9): 2279–2290. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apm.2009.10.036.
Kondo, A., M. Yamamoto, Y. Inoue, and B. H. A. K. T. Ariyadasa. 2013. “Evaluation of lead concentration by one-box type multimedia model in Lake Biwa-Yodo River basin of Japan.” Chemosphere 92 (5): 497–503. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2013.02.013.
Laniak, G. F., J. G. Droppo, E. R. Faillace, E. K. Gnanapragasam, W. B. Mills, D. L. Strenge, G. Whelan, and C. Yu. 1997. “An overview of a multimedia benchmarking analysis for three risk assessment models: RESRAD, MMSOILS, and MEPAS.” Risk Anal. 17 (2): 203–214. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1539-6924.1997.tb00859.x.
Lee, M. E., and I. W. Seo. 2010. “2D finite element pollutant transport model for accidental mass release in rivers.” J. Civ. Eng. 14 (1): 77–86. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12205-010-0077-9.
Lee, Y., G. Cho, D. S. Lee, J. Y. Lee, Y. K. Kim, D. W. Kim, S. J. Kim, K. Kim, G. Jang, and S. Choi. 2007. “Influence of the large grid size used in a multimedia mass balance model (POPsME) on the exposure assessment of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans.” Environ. Sci. Technol. 41 (15): 5231–5236. https://doi.org/10.1021/es070222y.
Little, K. W., A. B. Parks, and T. P. Lillys. 2018. “An open-source, generic, environmental model for chemical fate and transport analysis in multi-media systems.” Environ. Modell. Software 103 (May): 90–104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2018.02.001.
Liu, S., Y. Lu, T. Wang, S. Xie, K. C. Jones, and A. J. Sweetman. 2014. “Using gridded multimedia model to simulate spatial fate of benzo[]pyrene on regional scale.” Environ. Int. 63 (Feb): 53–63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2013.10.015.
Lu, S., and Q. Xu. 2009. “Competitive adsorption of Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn by different soils of Eastern China.” Environ. Geol. 57 (3): 685–693. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00254-008-1347-4.
Mackay, D. 2001. Multimedia environmental models: The fugacity approach. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
McKone, T. E., and D. H. Bennett. 2003. “Chemical-specific representation of air−soil exchange and soil penetration in regional multimedia models.” Environ. Sci. Technol. 37 (14): 3123–3132. https://doi.org/10.1021/es0258529.
Sehili, A. M., and G. Lammel. 2007. “Global fate and distribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons emitted from Europe and Russia.” Atmos. Environ. 41 (37): 8301–8315. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.06.050.
Sheu, T. W. H., and Y. H. Chen. 2002. “Finite element analysis of contaminant transport in groundwater.” Appl. Math. Comput. 127 (1): 23–43. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0096-3003(00)00160-0.
Van Genuchten, M. T., and W. Alves. 1982. Analytical solutions of the one-dimensional convective-dispersive solute transport equation. Washington, DC: Economic Research Service.
Wannaz, C., A. Franco, J. Kilgallon, J. Hodges, and O. Jolliet. 2018. “A global framework to model spatial ecosystems exposure to home and personal care chemicals in Asia.” Sci. Total Environ. 622–623 (May): 410–420. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.11.315.
Zhan, C., R. Zhang, X. Song, and B. Liu. 2015. “An enhanced environmental multimedia modeling system based on fuzzy-set approach: I. Theoretical framework and model development.” Front. Environ. Sci. Eng. 9 (3): 494–505. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11783-013-0609-x.
Zhang, R.-R., C.-S. Zhan, Z.-P. He, and X.-M. Song. 2012. “Review of environmental multimedia models.” Environ. Forensics 13 (3): 216–224. https://doi.org/10.1080/15275922.2012.702328.
Zheng, C. M., and G. D. Bennett. 2002. Applied contaminant transport modeling. New York: Wiley.
Information & Authors
Information
Published In
Journal of Environmental Engineering
Volume 146 • Issue 5 • May 2020
Copyright
©2020 American Society of Civil Engineers.
History
Received: Apr 5, 2019
Accepted: Oct 7, 2019
Published online: Feb 27, 2020
Published in print: May 1, 2020
Discussion open until: Jul 27, 2020
Authors
Metrics & Citations
Metrics
Citations
Download citation
If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation manager of your choice. Simply select your manager software from the list below and click Download.