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Application of Direct Push Methods to Investigate Uranium Distribution in an Alluvial Aquifer

GROUND WATER MONITORING & REMEDIATION, Issue 4 2009
Wesley McCall
The U.S. EPA 2000 Radionuclide Rule established a maximum contaminant level (MCL) for uranium of 30 µg/L. Many small community water supplies are struggling to comply with this new regulation. At one such community, direct push (DP) methods were applied to obtain hydraulic profiling tool (HPT) logs and install small diameter wells in a section of alluvial deposits located along the Platte River. This work was conducted to evaluate potential sources of elevated uranium in the Clarks, Nebraska drinking water supply. HPT logs were used to understand the hydrostratigraphy of a portion of the aquifer and guide placement of small diameter wells at selected depth intervals. Low-flow sampling of the wells provided water quality parameters and samples for analysis to study the distribution of uranium and variations in aquifer chemistry. Contrary to expectations, the aquifer chemistry revealed that uranium was being mobilized under anoxic and reducing conditions. Review of the test well and new public water supply well construction details revealed that filter packs extended significantly above the screened intervals of the wells. These filter packs were providing a conduit for the movement of groundwater with elevated concentrations of uranium into the supply wells and the community drinking water supply. The methods applied and lessons learned here may be useful for the assessment of unconsolidated aquifers for uranium, arsenic, and many other drinking water supply contaminants. [source]

Group functions approach based on the combination of strictly local geminals and molecular orbitals

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF QUANTUM CHEMISTRY, Issue 3 2006
A. M. Tokmachev
Abstract Thegroup functions technique is a natural way to introduce local description into quantum chemistry. It can also be a basis for construction of numerically effective computational schemes having almost linear growth of computational costs with that of the size of the system. Previously, we constructed a family of computationally efficient semiempirical methods based on the variationally determined strictly local geminals (SLGs). It was implemented with four popular parameterization schemes (MINDO/3, MNDO, AM1, and PM3). Because of construction details, its applicability was restricted only to compounds with well-defined two-electron two-center chemical bonds and lone pairs. We generalize the previous treatment to make the electronic structure calculations possible for a wider class of compounds without loss of computational efficiency. The proposed scheme (SLG/SCF) is based on the general group function approach combining different descriptions for different electron groups: essentially local two-electron ones are described by geminals, while those with other numbers of electrons are described in the one-electron approximation. We implement the RHF, UHF, and ROHF approaches for the groups with delocalized electrons. This approach is tested for a series of radicals and molecules with extended ,-electron systems. It is shown that the SLG/SCF-based methods describe the experimental data not worse than the corresponding SCF procedures and provide a good starting point for calculations of polyatomic molecular systems. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem, 2006 [source]

Application of the RASCAN holographic radar to cultural heritage inspections

ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROSPECTION, Issue 3 2009
L. Capineri
Abstract This paper explores the application of the RASCAN holographic radar for non-destructive subsurface imaging of works of art and architecture. This radar provides high-resolution plan-view images of the shallow subsurface in dielectric materials. The radar is particularly sensitive to small metallic targets, but also to variations in moisture content. Originally developed for detection of hidden bugging devices, sounding of building construction details, and detection of landmines, here the utility of the RASCAN radar for art and architectural preservation studies is demonstrated by several bench-top experiments on stone and wood items with different subsurface defects and features, as well as actual field tests on a decorative marble medallion in the floor of the Temple of San Biagio in Montepulciano, Italy, and Frescoes in the Church of San Rocco in Cornaredo, Italy. Historical research indicates that the medallion in San Biagio was laid circa 1590 during the funeral ceremony of a Prelatio of the family Casata Cervini. The actual burial place of the Prelatio is not recorded, but a radar scan of the medallion, and follow-up scans of a bench-top model suggest the possibility of a cavity that could contain remains or relics. In San Rocco, small delaminations were detected behind the frescos. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

Untersuchung des Wärmeschutzes von Außenecken über unbeheizten Kellern in Wohngebäuden , die Achillesferse von massiven Außenwänden mit äußerer Wärmedämmung?

BAUPHYSIK, Issue 4 2004
Christoph Geyer Dr. rer. nat.
Außenwände von Wohngebäuden werden häufig als massive Mauerwerkswände mit einer außenliegenden Wärmedämmung erstellt. Bei dieser Wandkonstruktion trennt aber der Mauerwerkssockel der massiven Außenwand im Erdgeschoß die Wärmedämmebene der Außenwand von der Wärmedämmebene der Kellerdecke über einem unbeheizten Keller. Hierdurch entsteht eine linienförmige Wärmebrücke. Die für den Mindestwärmeschutz kritischste Stelle tritt an der Außenecke im Erdgeschoß auf, wo sich je zwei dieser linienförmigen Wärmebrücken überlagern. Daher wird die minimale raumseitige Oberflächentemperatur an dieser Ecke für die Beurteilung des Mindestwärmeschutzes der Konstruktion herangezogen. Durch eine Vielzahl von dreidimensionalen Wärmebrückenberechnungen werden die Konstruktionseigenschaften der angrenzenden ebenen Bauteile herausgearbeitet, welche die minimale, raumseitige Oberflächentemperatur in der Außenecke über einem unbeheizten Keller und damit den Mindestwärmeschutz der Konstruktion beeinflussen. Es zeigt sich, daß eine minimale raumseitige Oberflächentemperatur in der Außenecke von 12, 6 °C erst mit Wärmedurchlaßwiderständen der Tragschale bzw. der gesamten Wandkonstruktion nachgewiesen werden kann, die wesentlich höher als 1, 2 m2K/W sind. Damit ist für diese Art von Außenwänden ein Mindestwärmeschutz nach Tabelle 3, DIN 4108-2 [1] mit einer Anforderung an den Wärmedurchlasswiderstand von R , 1,2 m2K/W nicht ausreichend, um den Mindestwärmeschutz auch für die Außenecke im Erdgeschoß rechnerisch nachweisen zu können. Es wird daher vorgeschlagen, ergänzende Hinweise in die Norm aufzunehmen. Examination of the thermal insulation characteristics of external corners above unheated basements in dwellings , the Achilles' heel of heavy-weight external walls with thermal insulation on the outside? External walls in dwellings consist often of a heavy-weight wall and a thermal insulation fixed outside. With this construction the insulation of the external wall is separated by the plinth of the external wall from the thermal insulation incorporated in the slab above an unheated basement. This results in a thermal bridge along the edge of the basement slab. The most critical point of the construction with regard to thermal protection occurs at the exterior corner at ground floor level, where two linear thermal bridges overlay. For this reason the minimum inner surface temperature of the corner is used to estimate the heat protection of the construction. A number of calculations of the minimum temperature at the interior surface of this three dimensional thermal bridge is performed to evaluate the parameters of the adjacent construction details which affect the minimum temperature at the inner surface of the corner. To reach the minimum temperature at he inner surface of the corner of 12.6 °C demanded by the German standard DIN 4108-2 as the minimum requirement of heat protection for thermal bridges, thermal resistances of the whole wall construction much higher than 1.2 m2K/W are necessary. For this construction type of exterior walls a thermal resistance of 1.2 m2K/W as demanded in table 3 of the German standard DIN 4108-2 as a minimum heat insulation for exterior walls can be shown to be insufficient to assure a minimum temperature of 12.6 °C at the inner surface of the corner at ground floor level. Thus it is proposed to add additional notes concerning this construction type in this standard. [source]