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The behaviour of LNAPL in sand due to precipitation

The behaviour of LNAPL in sand due to precipitation / Mah Chia Ling
Kes penumpahan minyak telah menjadi semakin meningkat dan semakin serius. Penumpahan minyak boleh terjadi atas kebocoran paip, kemalangan semasa pengakutan, bencana alam atau letupan tangki minyak. Kerja pemulihan untuk membersihkan tanah yang tercemar memerlukan masa yang panjang sekiraya penumpahan minyak berlaku. Penumpahan minyak kebanyakannya berlaku atas darat dan laut. Minyak yang ringan daripada air terutamanya LNAPL akan mengapung atas laut dan juga air di bawah tanah. Kes ini membawa kesan kepada alam sekitar, binatang dan manusia. Minyak yang berapung atas laut melarang kemasukan oksigen dan sinaran matahari ke dalam laut telah mengancam kehidupan laut. Kesihatan manusia juga tergugat apabila kita menggunakan air di bawah tanah yang telah tercemar. Oleh itu, pengerakan minyak di dalam tanah perlu ditentukan sebelum mengadakan kerja pemulihan. Kajian tiang satu dimensi telah dijalankan untuk mengetahui tentang kadar pengerakan LNAPL disebabkan oleh air hujan kerana air hujan akan menjejas pengerakan LNAPL di dalam tanah. Kajian ini bermula dengan saliran air selama 4 jam, penyusupan diesel selama 24 jam, hujan selama sejam dan penyusupan air selama 24 jam. Kajian ini dijalankan sebagai situasi sebenar di dalam tanah. Titisan air daripada hujan akan menyusup ke dalam tanah dan menjadi air di bawah tanah. LNAPL menyusup dari kemukaan tanah dan mengambil ruang kosong antara particles tanah. Apabila hujan turun, diesel akan bergerak bersama air hujan ke bawah tanah sehingga mencapai zon kapilari yang bertepu. Titisan hujan mampu menolak diesel yang telah meduduki ruang kosong antara particle tanah ke bawah tanah yang lebih dalam. Kegunaan intensity air hujan dan isi padu diesel yang berbeza dalam kajian untuk mengetahui kesan yang berlaku atas pengerakan diesel. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ The number of oil spill cases keeps increasing and turning serious. Any incidents can cause oil spill such as pipeline leakage, transportation accident, natural disasters or exploration of oil tanker. Once the oil spill happened, the remediation work may take long time to clean the contaminated soil completely. The oil spill happened on the ground and the sea. Oil has a density less than water, especially light non-aqueous phase liquid (LNAPL) will float on the sea surface and groundwater table. This will truly bring effect to the environment, animals and humans. Oil covered the sea surface, causing oxygen and sunlight difficult to go into the sea which threaten the aqua life. The pollution of groundwater will lead to health problems when human consumed the polluted groundwater as drinking water. However, before starting the remediation work, the movement of the oil in the ground needs to be determined. Hence, one dimensional (1-D) column tests were carried out to study the rate of migration of the LNAPL due to precipitation because the movement of oil may be affected by rain water percolation. The column test started with drainage for 4 hours, infiltration of diesel for 24 hours, precipitation for 1 hour and percolation of water for 24 hours. This test was conducted to simulate the real case scenario. When precipitation occurred, the droplets infiltrate into the ground and store as groundwater. The LNAPL infiltrate the ground surface and occupied the pore between the soil particles. During precipitation, diesel will migrate downwards together with rain water into the saturated capillary zone. The infiltrated water may occupy the pores by pushing diesel downward and entrapped in deeper soil. The different intensity of precipitation and volume of diesel was used to understand the effect on the saturation of diesel in height.
Contributor(s):
Mah Chia Ling - Author
Primary Item Type:
Final Year Project
Identifiers:
Accession Number : 875006836
Barcode : 00003106713
Language:
English
Subject Keywords:
oil spill; LNAPL; pollution of groundwater
First presented to the public:
6/1/2017
Original Publication Date:
3/23/2018
Previously Published By:
Universiti Sains Malaysia
Place Of Publication:
School of Civil Engineering
Citation:
Extents:
Number of Pages - 97
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Date Deposited
2018-03-23 16:47:03.901
Date Last Updated
2020-06-05 14:14:08.219
Submitter:
Mohd Jasnizam Mohd Salleh

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