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ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Colloid and Bromide Transport in Undisturbed Soil Columns

Application of Two-Region Model

^a Institute of Life Sciences, Environmental Engineering Section, Aalborg University, Sohngaardsholmsvej 57, DK-9000 Aalborg, Denmark
^b Dep. of Agroecology, Soil Physics and Chemistry Section, Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences, P.O. Box 50, DK-8830 Tjele, Denmark
^c Dep. of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, 255 Shimo-okubo, Sakura-ku, Saitama, 338-8570, Japan
^* Corresponding author (tgp{at}bio.aau.dk)

Received 23 May 2005.

Bromide tracer breakthrough and natural soil colloid leaching curves for undisturbed soil columns were used to characterize dissolved and suspended matter transport at the field scale. Data from 33 columns of 20-cm diameter and 20-cm height were used. Columns were collected in a grid of 25 by 30 m at an agricultural field. A two-region (mobile–immobile water phase, MIM) solute transport model was fitted to data. The model was used to estimate bromide and colloid transport parameters including mobile and immobile water contents (_m, _im), bromide and colloid advective velocities (v_Br, v_Coll), and mobile–immobile mass transfer coefficients (_br, _coll). Both soil physical properties and transport parameters were highly variable across the sampling field. Comparison of bromide transport parameters with basic soil physical properties revealed that v_Br was proportional to soil clay content and bulk density (_b), but _Br was inversely proportional to these parameters. Colloid transport parameters, v_Coll and _Coll, however, showed only a weak correlation with clay content and _b. Also, v_Coll was typically three to four times higher than v_Br. The colloid velocity was generally higher than the bromide velocity, implying size exclusion of colloids. The spatial distributions of soil physical properties, bromide and colloid transport parameters, and leached quantities of particles were compared. The results suggested that bromide and colloid mass transfer (diffusion) were not controlled by the same soil physical conditions, and that soil structure and macropore flow are more important than the quantity of dispersible colloids in controlling colloid leaching.

Abbreviations: MIM, mobile–immobile phases • SSD, sum of squared deviations • WDC, water dispersible colloids • 2MIM, 2 mobile and one immobile phases

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