Abstract

The smear zones are usually caused by the installation of vertical drains in fine-grained soil. An analytical solution for contaminant extraction using well injection depth extraction (WIDE) system considering the smear effect was developed. The injection rate was assumed to be equal to the retrieval rate to maintain full saturation and steady-state seepage flow. The results obtained by the proposed analytical solution agree well with those obtained from the finite element method. An illustrative example was presented to show the influence of the smear zones and results reveal that the smear zone can have a great influence on the contaminant extraction from soils. The 500-hour base concentration of acetone in the middle of the contaminated soil increases by a factor of approximately 1.9 when the effect of the smear zone is considered in the model.

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