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Dispersion and Sorption of Arsenic in a Biofilter with a not Living Biomass (Eicchornia crassipes): Comparison of Experimental and Numerical Results

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Experiments in natural porous media such as Eicchornia crassipes biomass for determining the sorption of arsenic are compared with numerical simulations done with the COMSOL Multiphysics code. The close agreement between the experimental and numerical results suggest that the theoretical model of hydrodynamic dispersion can be used to model the transport of arsenic in unsaturated porous media composed of Eichhornia crassipes biomass. The aim of this work was to find the best fitting between the experimental breakthrough curve and the simulated curve, during the arsenic sorption through the biomass.

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  1. Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares, Carretera México-Toluca s/n, La Marquesa, 52750, Ocoyoacac, Estado de México, Mexico

    Carlos Enrique Alvarado-Rodríguez, Ricardo Duarte-Pérez, Jaime Klapp-Escribano, Elizabeth Teresita Romero-Guzmán & Zayre Ivonne González-Acevedo

  2. Campus Guanajuato, División de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas, Universidad de Guanajuato, Noria Alta s/n, Guanajuato, Gto, Mexico

    Carlos Enrique Alvarado-Rodríguez

  3. Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Paseo Tollocan esq, Paseo Colon, Mexico

    María de Jesus Marín Allende

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  1. Nucleares, Instituto Nacional des Investigaciones, La Marquesa, Ocoyoacac, Carretera Mexico-Toluca S/N, Mexico, 52750, Mexico

    Jaime Klapp

  2. Instituto de Astronomia y Meteorologia, Vallarta 2602, Guadalajara, 44100, Mexico

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  3. CICESE, Ensenada, 39118, Mexico

    Oscar Velasco Fuentes

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    Catalina Stern

  5. Nucleares, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones, Carretera Mexico-Toluca S/N, La Marquesa, Mexico, 52750, Mexico

    Mario Alberto Rodriguez Meza

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Alvarado-Rodríguez, C.E., Duarte-Pérez, R., Klapp-Escribano, J., Romero-Guzmán, E.T., González-Acevedo, Z.I., Marín Allende, M. (2012). Dispersion and Sorption of Arsenic in a Biofilter with a not Living Biomass (Eicchornia crassipes): Comparison of Experimental and Numerical Results. In: Klapp, J., Cros, A., Velasco Fuentes, O., Stern, C., Rodriguez Meza, M. (eds) Experimental and Theoretical Advances in Fluid Dynamics. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17958-7_30

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