Contaminated Sites

• present sources to soil and groundwater pollution primarily from contaminated sites and identify types of sources and important contaminants
• demonstrate conceptual understanding of contamination of soil, groundwater and surface water from contaminated sites
• explain the governing processes and identify factors and parameters controlling transport and fate of contaminants in soil and groundwater
• quantify processes and select parameters for key processes such as transport, dispersion, sorption, volatilization and degradation
• analyse important elements in risk assessment of contaminated sites and relate results to a practical context
• apply model tools for transport prediction and risk assessment and report results and main conclusions
• demonstrate overview over remediation technologies and understanding of their strengths and weaknesses
• design remediation technologies using analytical tools and simple models
• select the most suitable remediation technologies in relation to actual hydrogeological, biogeochemical and contamination data
• assess remediation technologies and design results in relation to process understanding and sustainability
• synthesize knowledge about an actual well-defined topic using scientific literature and present the results in an abstract and a poster
• evaluate and give constructive critisism of abstracts/posters presented by other groups

Sources to soil and groundwater pollution
Transport, attenuation and degradation of organic pollutants
Soil and groundwater chemistry of heavy metals
Methods for site investigation and risk assessment
In situ and ex-situ technologies for remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater
Sustainability of methods and remedial actions

12102 Environmental Processes,
12104 Environmental Modelling
12237 Chemicals in the Environment and
12320 Hydrology

Lectures, exercises, preparation of report, presentation of abstract and poster, guest lectures and excursion to contaminated sites

It is recommended to follow course 12237 Chemicals in the Environment in parallel.

In the following 3 week period, we offer course 12331 Field investigations of contaminated sites, which illustrates the practical aspects of the course.