An experimental and computational investigation of in situ chemical oxidation (ISCO) of weathered diesel fuel in soil columns was undertaken to validate a reactive-transport model capable of predicting contaminant mass reduction from a residual source zone. Reactivity tests with contaminated groundwater in batch reactors were used to estimate a priori the kinetic parameters of a phenomenological model of the oxidation of petroleum hydrocarbon (PHC) mixture fractions. The transport model, which incorporated groundwater flow, dissolution of main PHC fractions, and homogeneous reaction in the aqueous phase, was subsequently validated against experimental data of ISCO in soil columns using repetitive treatments with unactivated and alkaline-activated persulfate. No significant effect of the initial concentration of persulfate on the remediation performance was observed in the batch system, but alkaline activation significantly improved performance. The alkaline-activated persulfate treatment achieved ∼80% removal of the initial NAPL mass in soil columns. The combination of models and experiments described herein should enable the rational design of field-scale advanced oxidation strategies for the removal of weathered petroleum hydrocarbons. This expectation was supported by a comprehensive demonstration study at a historical site contaminated by weathered diesel fuel present as a residual source within the soil and dissolved within groundwater.
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