Coupling effects during steady-state solute diffusion through a semipermeable clay membrane
Coupling effects during steady-state solute diffusion through a semipermeable clay membrane
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DOI:
10.1021/es011130q
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发表时间:
2002-03-15
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11.4
通讯作者:
Shackelford, CD
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作者:
Malusis, MA;Shackelford, CD
Two separate coupling effects are evaluated with respect to steady-state potassium chloride (M) diffusion through a bentonite-based geosynthetic clay liner (GCL) that behaves as a semipermeable membrane. Both of the coupling effects are correlated with measured chemico-osmotic efficiency coefficients, omega, that range from 0.14 to 0.63 for the GCL. The first coupling effect is an explicit (theoretical) salt-sieving effect expressed as a coupled effective salt diffusion coefficient, D-omega*, that is lower than the true (uncoupled) effective salt diffusion coefficient, D-s*, because of the observed membrane behavior. However, the maximum difference between D-omega* and D-s* based on measured chloride concentrations is relatively small (i.e., = 10%), and the difference decreases with decreasing w (i.e., D-omega* --> D-s* as omega --> 0). The second coupling effect is implicit (empirical) and is characterized by the measurement of concentration-dependent effective salt diffusion coefficients that results in an similar to300% decrease in D-s* as w increases from 0.14 to 0.63. The decrease in D-s* resulting from implicit coupling is attributed to solute exclusion described in terms of a restrictive tortuosity factor.