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Pollution transfer in soil and water environment

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Course ID: 1300-OMZGW-GES
Erasmus code / ISCED: 07.304 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0532) Earth science The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title: Pollution transfer in soil and water environment
Name in Polish: Migracja zanieczyszczeń w środowisku gruntowo-wodnym
Organizational unit: Faculty of Geology
Course groups: (in Polish) Przedmiot obowiązkowy na I sem. II roku stud. II st. GES na spec. hydrogeologia
(in Polish) Przedmiot obowiązkowy na III sem. stud. II st. GES na spec. geologia inżynierska
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): 3.00 Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles:
  • the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS;
  • the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h;
  • 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes;
  • weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS;
  • work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load.
Language: Polish
Type of course:

obligatory courses
Prerequisites (description):

Students should have basic knowledge related to:

- basics of hydrogeology

- basics of differential and integral calculus

- mathematical description of groundwater flow

- operation of Visual Modflow software

- operation of the GIS programs
Short description:

Hydrogeological basis for protection of groundwater quality. Processes and conditions forming the migration of pollutants and its calculation parameters. Role of the rock medium in pollution flow through an aquifer with particular regard to sorption processes. Retardation of substances transfer in groundwater flow. Usage of environmental tracers as indicators of pollutants migration. Remediation of soil and water environment of petroleum products and pesticides. Mass transfer modeling in unsteady state filtration. Cartography in the service of groundwater protection. Projection of protection zones of groundwater intakes and groundwater reservoirs with usage of modern numerical tools.
Full description:

The lecture is concentrated on:

Basic processes conditioning the pollution transfer in groundwater:

• hydrogeological conditions of pollution transfer

• anthropogenic and geogenic contamination

• the scale problem in interpretation of the phenomena of mass transport in groundwater flow

• determination of migration time in unsaturated and saturated zone (advection, diffusion)

• tritium as a tracer of pollution transfer

• medium rock impact on migration of pollution in an aquifer (determination of the average effective velocity of water in an aquifer, the dispersion parameters, flow parameters, diffusion, sorption and decay parameters or biodegradation of migrant)

• flow scheme of the exchange processes between the aqueous solution and a rock

• retardation of substances transfer in groundwater flow (retardation coefficient)

• sorption processes - as a factor in delaying the migration of pollution in groundwater flow (isoelectric point, the ranks of ion exchange, sorption isotherms, evaluation of saturation of the sorption complex by pollutant)

• role of carbonates, organic matter and micro-porosity rock matrix in migration of pollutants in an aquifer

Examples of threats of groundwater - the method of prevention:

• propagation of petroleum pollution in soil and aquatic environment and a n overview of the methods of remediation of soil and groundwater from pollutants with oil substances

• pollution of groundwater by pesticides and the methods of their prevention

• factors determining of pesticide biodegradation

Cartography in the service of groundwater protection:

• degree of potential thread of an useful aquifer

• The Map of Vulnerability of Groundwater in 1 : 500 000

• The Hydrogeological Map of Poland in 1 : 500 000 – first aquifer, vulnerability of pollution and quality.
Bibliography: (in Polish)

Domenico P.A., Schwartz F.W., 1990 - Physical and chemical hydrogeology. Wyd. John Wiley & Sons, USA.

Dowgiałło J., Kleczkowski A. S., Macioszczyk T., Różkowski A. (red.), 2002 - Słownik hydrogeologiczny. Państwowy Instytut Geologiczny, Warszawa.

Fetter C.W., 1994 - Applied hydrogeology. Wyd. Prentice Hall. Inc. A Simon & Schuster Company Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA.

Kleczkowski A. S. (red.), 1984 - Ochrona wód podziemnych. Wyd. Geologiczne, Warszawa.

Kulma R., 1995 - Podstawy obliczeń filtracji wód podziemnych. Wyd. AGH, Kraków.

Kulma R., Zdechlik R., 2009 - Modelowanie procesów filtracji. Wyd. AGH, Kraków.

Macioszczyk A. (red.), 2006 - Podstawy hydrogeologii stosowanej. Wyd. PWN, Warszawa.

Małecki J. J., Nawalany M., Witczak S., Gruszczyński T., 2006 - Wyznaczanie parametrów migracji zanieczyszczeń w ośrodku porowatym dla potrzeb badań hydrogeologicznych i ochrony środowiska. Uniwersytet Warszawski, Wydział Geologii.

Szymanko J., 1980 - Koncepcje systemu wodonośnego i metod jego modelowania. Wyd. Geologiczne, Warszawa.

akty prawne związane z tematyką przedmiotu
Learning outcomes:

After completing the course a student:

- determines degree of potential threat of useful aquifer

- identifies anthropogenic and geogenic pollution of groundwater

- knows the main components of the process of mass transport in groundwater

- understands opportunities and limitations of environmental tracer usage to evaluation of pollutant migration in groundwater

- explains physical meaning of the mass transport parameters

- calculates migration of substances according to the advective model transport

- understands the physical meaning of substance scattering as a result of hydrodynamic dispersion and can integrate this process in the calculation

- understands the role of micro-porosity of rock matrix in the pollutant migration process

- describes the sorption interaction in terms of equilibrium meaning with using the sorption isotherms

- understands the role of carbonates and organic matter in pollution transfer

- is able to use available cartographic information to groundwater protection

- explains the problems associated with the propagation of petroleum pollutants in soil and water environment and knows the methods of remediation of land and groundwater from petroleum pollutants

- knows threats of groundwater contamination by pesticides and the methods of prevention of contamination

- specifies the factors determining biodegradation of pesticides
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:

A final assessment of the subject on the basis of written exam (to take the exam a student must obtain a positive assessment of the exercise).
Practical placement: (in Polish)

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Classes in period "Summer semester 2023/24" (in progress)

Time span: 2024-02-19 - 2024-06-16
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Type of class:
Lecture, 30 hours, 13 places more information
Coordinators: Jerzy Małecki
Group instructors: Jerzy Małecki
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