A soil non-aqueous phase liquid (NAPL) flushing laboratory experiment based on measuring the dielectric properties of soil–organic mixtures via time domain reflectometry (TDR)

Comegna, Alessandro; Coppola, Antonio; Dragonetti, Giovanna; Sommella, Angelo

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-3593-2019

Articles | Volume 23, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-3593-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-3593-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 23, issue 9

Research article

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04 Sep 2019

Research article |

| 04 Sep 2019

A soil non-aqueous phase liquid (NAPL) flushing laboratory experiment based on measuring the dielectric properties of soil–organic mixtures via time domain reflectometry (TDR)

Alessandro Comegna, Antonio Coppola, Giovanna Dragonetti, and Angelo Sommella

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Review of hess-2019-149', Ty P. A. Ferre, 23 May 2019
- AC1: 'Letter to the reviewer #1 (Prof. Ferré)', alessandro comegna, 02 Jul 2019
RC2: 'Review of manuscript entitled ”A soil non-aqueous phase liquid (NAPL) flushing laboratory experiment based in time domain reflectometry (TDR) and modeling”', Magnus Persson, 18 Jun 2019
- AC2: 'Letter to the reviewer #2 (Prof. Persson)', alessandro comegna, 02 Jul 2019
RC3: 'Review for the manuscript: A soil non-aqueous phase liquid (NAPL) flushing laboratory experiment based on time domain reflectometry (TDR) and modeling', Anonymous Referee #3, 24 Jun 2019
- AC3: 'Letter to the reviewer #3 (Anonymous)', alessandro comegna, 02 Jul 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (further review by editor) (25 Jul 2019) by Marnik Vanclooster

AR by alessandro comegna on behalf of the Authors (25 Jul 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (06 Aug 2019) by Marnik Vanclooster

Short summary

We carried out a series of laboratory-controlled experiments in order to simulate different scenarios of practical interest aiming to analyze, from a dielectric point of view, the influence of different washing solutions on non-aqueous phase liquid (NAPL) removal. Furthermore, on the basis of the results obtained, we validated a dielectric mixing model for predicting the volumetric amounts of NAPL (θ_NAPL) within the contaminated soil as the decontamination process progressed.