A Cellular Automata Model of Soil Bioremediation
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چکیده
The remediation of contaminated soils is one of the major environmental problems in industrial countries today. Among the different techniques that can be applied, in situ bioremediation, which relies upon the use of indigeneous microorganisms to degrade the contaminant, is one of the most attractive, both from an environmental and an economic viewpoint. A full-scale bioremediation process requires a number of laboratory and pilot-scale tests in order to assess the feasibility of the remediation, to define potential health threats, and to find optimal operating conditions. Scaling up from the laboratory to the field can greatly benefit from the development of reliable mathematical models, which need to deal with several interacting physical, chemical, and biological phenomena. A macroscopic cellular automata (CA) model is presented here, which describes the major phenomena that take place in bioremediation. The reasons for using macroscopic CA are discussed. The model is composed of the following three layers, each layer depending on the others.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Complex Systems
دوره 11 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1997