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Colloidal Transport in Porous Media

  • Presents the analytical, chemical, microbiological, geological and hydrological aspects of material transport by colloidal processes in aquatic systems and soils

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
  2. Transport Phenomena

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Colloid Facilitated Transport in Natural Porous Media: Fundamental Phenomena and Modelling

      • Daniel Grolimund, Kurt Barmettler, Michal Borkovec
      Pages 3-27
    3. Transport of Colloids in Filter Columns: Laboratory and Field Experiments

      • Ralf Siepmann, Frank von der Kammer, Ulrich Förstner
      Pages 87-115
  3. Biocolloids and Biofilms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
    2. Influence of Biofilms on Colloid Mobility in the Subsurface

      • Martin Strathmann, Carlos Felipe Leon-Morales, Hans-Curt Flemming
      Pages 143-173
    3. Subsurface Transport of Heavy Metals Mediated by Biosolid Colloids in Waste-Amended Soils

      • Anastasios Karathanasis, Carey Johnson, Chris Matocha
      Pages 175-201
  4. Colloids and Contaminants, Engineering Aspects

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203
    2. Ion - Colloid - Colloid Interactions

      • Willem H. Van Riemsdijk, Liping Weng, Tjisse Hiemstra
      Pages 205-249
    3. The Role of Colloid Transport in Metal Roof Runoff Treatment

      • Alexander Schriewer, Konstantinos Athanasiadis, Brigitte Helmreich
      Pages 273-286
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 287-291

About this book

Colloids are known to be the often neglected phase for the transport of pollutants in aquatic ecosystems. The book covers the basics of abiotic colloid characterization, of biocolloids and biofilms, the resulting transport phenomena and their engineering aspects. The subject is presented from an international group of leading specialists devoted to colloidal sciences. The contributions include theoretical considerations, results from model experiments as well as field studies. The information given will serve students and scientists interested in the analytical, chemical, microbiological, geological and hydrological aspects of material transport in aquatic systems and soils.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Engler-Bunte-Institute Department of Water Chemistry, University of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Fritz H. Frimmel

  • Department of Geological Sciences, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Frank Kammer

  • Faculty of Chemistry — Biofilm Centre, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany

    Hans-Curt Flemming

About the editors

Fritz Frimmel holds the Chair of Water Chemistry and is director of the Research Laboratory of the German Gas and Water Association at the Engler-Bunte-Institute, University of Karlsruhe (TH). He studied chemistry, and made his doctorate and habilitation at the Technical University of Munich. He was research scholar at the University College Dublin and was visiting professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at the Academy Nishnij Novgorod. He holds several prizes and international awards and is Honorary President of the Water Chemical Society Germany.

Frank von der Kammer was born in 1966. He studied Cultural Sciences at the University of Lueneburg with Chemistry and Ecology as majors. He obtained his doctoral degree at the Hamburg University of Technology in the field of natural nanoparticle characterization. In 2005 he changed to Vienna University where he continues his research on natural and industrial nanoparticles in the environment as head of the Nanogeosciences Division in the Department for Environmental Geosciences.

Hans-Curt Flemming (d.o.b. 1947) studied chemistry and received his Ph.D. at the Max-Planck-Institute for Immunobiology in Freiburg. He established a Biofilm Research Group at the Institute for Civil Engineering in Stuttgart which he left in 1994 to organize the Biotechnology Group at the Institute for Civil Engineering, Technical University of Munich. In 1996 he took the chair for Aquatic Microbiology at the University of Duisburg-Essen and since 2001 he is head of the Biofilm Centre of that university.

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