Soil, Groundwater & Waste

Protecting and restoring the subsurface. Groundwater flow and contaminant transport, solid-waste management, adsorption, and contaminated-site remediation.

• Groundwater Flow & Contaminant Transport — Water and pollutants underground. Learn aquifers and aquitards, porosity and hydraulic conductivity, Darcy's law, hydraulic gradient, seepage velocity, well hydraulics (Thiem), advection, dispersion and diffusion, sorption and retardation, degradation, the advection–dispersion equation and plumes, and groundwater protection — with Python for travel times and breakthrough.
• Solid Waste — Municipal solid waste must be collected, processed and disposed of safely. Learn generation and composition, the waste hierarchy, collection and transport, composting and waste-to-energy, sanitary landfill design (volume, liners, leachate, gas) and circular economy.
• Adsorption — Adsorption captures molecules on the surface of porous solids. Learn adsorbents (activated carbon, zeolites, silica gel, MOFs), isotherms (Langmuir, Freundlich), fixed-bed operation and breakthrough curves, mass-transfer zones, bed sizing, and regeneration (TSA, PSA).
• Contaminated Site Remediation & Hazardous Waste — Cleaning up polluted soil and groundwater. Learn site investigation and conceptual site models, risk-based cleanup goals, hazardous-waste characteristics and management, remediation technologies (excavation, pump-and-treat, soil vapour extraction, bioremediation, in-situ chemical oxidation, permeable reactive barriers, stabilisation, phytoremediation, monitored natural attenuation), adsorption with activated carbon and treatment-train selection — with Python for pore-volume flushing and carbon-bed life.