"Gas Transport in Porous Media" ed. by Clifford K. Ho, Stephen W. Webb

This volume book presents a studies on gas and vapor transport processes in porous and fractured media. This book fills a gap in the general area of transport in porous and fractured media - an area that has historically been dominated by studies of liquid-phase flow and transport.

This book identifies gas and vapor transport processes that may be important or dominant in various applications, and it exploits recent advances in computational modeling and experimental methods to present studies that distinguish the relative importance of various mechanisms of transport in complex media.

Audience:
This book offers essential reading to researchers and graduate students in soil science, hydrology, as well as civil engineering, and mechanical engineering.
Also employees at government institutions, national laboratories, practicing environmental engineers and engineering consultants can find valuable information in this book.
Finally it can serve as a textbook to students with a basic background in thermodynamics and fluid mechanics.


Table of Contents
1. Introduction
Part 1: Processes and Models
2. Gas Transport Mechanisms
3. Vapor Transport Processes
4. Solid/Gas Partitioning
5. Two-Phase Gas Transport
6. Conservation Equations
7. Gas-Phase Dispersion in Porous Media
8. Gas Injection and Fingering in Porous Media
9. Unstable and Fingering Gas Flow in Fractures
10. Natural Convection Gas Transport in Porous Media
11. Scaling Issues in Porous and Fractured Media
12. Numerical Codes for Continuum Modeling of Gas Transport in Porous Media
13. Lattice Boltzmann Method for Calculating Fluid Flow and Dispersion in Porous and Fractured Media
Part 2: Measurement and Monitoring
14. Experimental Determination of Transport Parameters
15. Air Permeability Measurements in Porous Media
16. Analyzing Barometric Pumping to Characterize Subsurface Permeability
17. Subsurface Flow Measurements
18. Measurement of Vapor Concentrations
19. In situ Measurement of Induced Contaminant Flux
Part 3: Applications
20. Radon Transport
21. Gas Transport Issues in Landmine Detection
22. Environmental Remediation of Volatile Organic Compounds
23. Yucca Mountain Heater Tests
24. Impact of Gas Generation on the Performance of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
25. Oil and Gas Industry Applications of Gas Flow in Porous Media
26. Geologic Carbon Sequestration: CO2 Transport in Depleted Gas Reservoirs
27. Industrial Gas Transport Processes Involving Heat Transfer
Index