Goals: Measure the mean velocity in the laboratory flume using two different methods, and determine whether these estimates agree within the uncertainty.

Objective: Use a tracer study to estimate the dispersion coefficient, pore velocity and porosity of a sediment column. 

You will estimate the rate of exchange between a water body (the flume) and the overlying air for two volatile compounds, molecular oxygen and chloroform. You will use an oxygen electrode to measure the changing concentration of oxygen, and gas chromatography (GC) to observe the concentration of chloroform.

Problem set for the course Transport Processes in the Environment.

Problem set for the course Transport Processes in the Environment.