| Title: |
Analysis and modeling of ultrasound enhanced soil washing
process
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| Author: | |
| Document Type: |
Thesis
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| Department: |
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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| Degree: |
Master of Science
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| Major: |
Civil Engineering
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| Advisory Committee: |
Meegoda, Jay N.
Bhattacharjee, Manish Chandra
Raghu, Dorairaja
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| Thesis Date: |
1997
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| Keywords: |
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons--Decontamination
Ultrasonic cleaning
Surface active agents
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| Availability: |
Unrestricted
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| Abstract: |
In this research, statistical analysis of data from ultrasound enhanced soil washing process was performed. The process was optimized using a statistical model. The model had four factors namely power, solvent:soil, surfactant, and dwell time as process variables. The percentage of removal efficiency was considered as the dependent variable. The results from two full and one partial factorial designs were analysed. Interactions up to third order were considered in the analysis, but the results from full factorial design showed that those of order higher than second had insignificant contributions to the removal of contaminants. Since the higher order interactions of process variables could be neglected, a quadratic model was used to optimize the process conditions. The analysis showed that the ultrasonic power density was the main contributing factor. The analysis results showed that for soil #1, optimum average removal of 83 % was obtained at 32% power, 42 solvent:soil, 0.69% surfactant con., and for a dwell time of 25.5 min. For soil #2, similar results were obtained with lower removal efficiency. The removal efficiency of individual PAHs produce similar conclusions for both soils. A partial factorial design was considered for soil 93 to drastically reduce the number of experiments. The statistical analysis showed that data for partial factorial design can be used to obtain meaningful results and had an optimal removal of 37.67% at 34.24% power, 32.62 solvent:soil, 0.89% surfactant con., and for dwell time of 11.33 min. |
| Complete Thesis: |
njit-etd1997-012
(148 pages ~ 10,271 KB pdf)
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| Download by Chapters: |
Front
Matter (Title Page, Abstract, Table
of Contents, etc. ~ 21pages ~ 1,078 KB pdf)
Chapter
1: Introduction (3 pages ~ 196 KB
pdf)
Chapter
2: Literature Review (9 pages ~ 766
KB pdf)
Chapter
3: Ultrasound Enhancement Of Soil Washing (6
pages ~ 622 KB pdf)
Chapter
4: Experimental Design (16 pages ~
1,098 KB pdf)
Chapter
5: Analytical Procedure (4 pages ~
232 KB pdf)
Chapter
6: Analyses Of Experimental Data (7
pages ~ 421 KB pdf)
Chapter
7: Statistical Analysis Of The Experimental Data (20
pages ~ 1,191 KB pdf)
Chapter
8: Summary And Conclusions (5 pages
~ 286 KB pdf)
Appendix
A: The Plots Show The Variations Of Removal Efficiencies With 12PAHs At
Different Conditions For Soil #1 (8
pages ~ 921 KB pdf)
Appendix
B: The Plots Show The Variations Of Removal Efficiencies With 11PAHs At
Different Conditions For Soil #2 (7
pages ~ 785 KB pdf)
Appendix
C: The Plots Show The Variations Of Removal Efficiencies With 14PAHs At
Different Conditions For Soil #3 (4
pages ~ 283 KB pdf)
Appendix
D: The Statistical Analysis Results Of Overall Model Using GLM Procedure
For Soil #1, Soil #2, And Soil #3 (4
pages ~ 265 KB pdf)
Appendix
E: The Statistical Analysis Results Of Eight PAHs Components Using Prog
Rsreg Procedure For Soil #1, Soil #2, And Soil #3 (17
pages ~ 1,646 KB pdf)
Appendix
F: The Plots Shows The Variations Of Observed Removal Efficiencies And
Predicted Removal Efficiencies With 81 Conditions (13
pages ~ 797 KB pdf)
References
(3 pages ~ 233 KB pdf)
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