UPCOMING GFDI COLLOQUIUM 

“Colloid Mobilization and Colloid-Facilitated Transport”

Speaker

Dr. Gang Chen

 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

FAMU/FSU College of Engineering

Time

Monday, November 20, 2017 at 1:00PM

Place

Melvin Stern Seminar Room

Room 18 Keen Bldg.

Refreshments will be served at 12:45PM

Abstract:

Naturally occurring colloidal particles are involved in many important processes in the subsurface zone. Due to the importance of these processes in the subsurface environment, the transport of colloidal particles has been studied in several disciplines, including soil sciences, petrology, and hydrology, etc. In environmental engineering, colloid release and transport in porous media has been extensively investigated, which is motivated by environmental concerns such as colloid-facilitated contaminant transport. Laboratory colloid mobilization experiments and related facilitated transport observations are presented. Modeling of these processes will also be discussed.