Abstract
Bioventing is a technology used to remove some kinds of pollutants from the subsoil and it is based on the capability of some
bacteria species to biodegrade contaminants. The biochemical reaction requires, among other things, oxygen and, therefore,
oxygen is inflated into the subsoil by wells. The mathematical model describes the movement of the different fluids which
are present in the subsoil - air, water, pollutants, oxygen and so on - and the bacteria population dynamics. The presence of
source reactive terms in the continuity equations allows the contaminant biodegradation to be described.
The design of a subsoil decontamination intervention concerns bioavailability problems and, in particular, the oxygen
concentration. Therefore, in order to enhance the biodegradation phenomenon, the optimization of the subsoil oxygen velocity
field in the polluted area is required, by an appropriate choice of the well positions and of the well air inflating rates. In
mathematical terms, the goal is to obtain the decontamination of the subsoil with an optimal value of an objective function by
acting on some control variables which, in this case, are the well positions and the inflating rates. In this paper several kind of
objective function are proposed.
Anno
2015
Tipo pubblicazione
Altri Autori
NOTARNICOLA FILIPPO
Curatori Volume
Zavarise, P. Cinnella and M. Campiti
Titolo Volume
Special Issue: 86th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM)