Bachelor Thesis
The influence of soil structure on reactive and conservative transport of chemicals in unsaturated soils
Support: Efstathios Diamantopoulos, Ben Gilfedder
Predicting the fate of chemicals in soils is a very difficult task, because effective reaction rates in soils depend on the soil heterogeneity , the dynamics of water flow in soils (hydraulic structure), the initial mixing of the reactants, and the speed of the reaction (Henri et al., 2024), among other factors (for example temperature). For this reason, experiments are needed to study reactivity of soils for different degrees of heterogeneity and different water fluxes. In this thesis, a second-order irreversible reaction is tested as a reactivity tracer for dynamic and static soil experiments.