WIT Press


Electric Current And Potential Variations During Electrokinetic Removal Of Heavy Metal From Aquifer

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

33

Pages

10

Published

1999

Size

880 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/WP990451

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

S. Shiba, Y. Hirata & T. Seno

Abstract

The electrokinetic method for the remediation of contaminated aquifers is realized by applying a fixed low voltage direct current between anode and cathode which are set into the contaminated zone. The electric current and electric potential between anode and cathode is the important operational variables for the electrokinetic re- mediation. However, the variations of these variables have not been cleared, be- cause this method is relatively new and is an inovative technique. Depending on the time variation of the electric curret, the removal process can be divided into the first stage and the secon

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