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1. INTRODUCTION
a. Ground-Water contamination;
b. Types of ground water contaminants;
c. Contamination sources
d. Reference national laws

2. Non-reactive solute transport in saturated media
a. Flow equations
b. Well equations
c. Heterogeneity and Hydrological scales
d. Transport by concentration gradients
e. Mechanical dispersion
f. Macrodispersion
g. ADE – LADE –FADE
h. Stochastic models

3. Reactive solute transport in saturated media
a. Classification of chemicals reactions
b. Equilibrium and non-equilibrium surface reactions
c. Sorption of hydrophobic compounds
d. Homogeneous reactions (chemical equilibrium – kinetics – tenads)
e. Radioactive decay
f. Biodegradation (Monod kinetics)

4. Flow and transport in the vadose zone
a. Flow equations
b. Transport of non-reactive compounds
c. Transport of reactive compounds (ADE and Mobile-Immobile models)

5. Multiphase flow
a. Saturation ratio
b. Interfacial tension
c. Darcy’s law
d. DNAPL
e. LNAPL

6. Site remediation
a. Source control measures
b. Removal
c. Containment
d. Treat systems

7. Health Risk models
a. Health risk for carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic compounds
b. Health risk uncertainty

1. CONTAMINANT HYDROGEOLOGY, C.W. Fetter Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J., x 500 pp., 1999. ISBN 10: 0137512155 / ISBN 13: 9780137512157
2. Applied contaminant transport Modeling, C. Zheng, Bennet G.D.,ISBN: 978-0-471-38477-9
3. Materiale didattico supplementare (articoli scientifici) fornito attraverso la piattaforma Moodle.