Potassium dynamics in soil during, steady flow
1984
JENSEN, JENS RAUNSO
Using a limited number of reasonable assumptions regarding the a priori unknown parameters, a model describing the dynamics of soil potassium during steady flow was found to calibrate to experimental potassium/calcium-chloride breakthrough curves obtained at relatively high flow rates from two columns packed with a sandy loam and a loamy sand, respectively. The model combines the effect of hydrodynamic dispersion and first-order mass transfer between the mobile and immobile regions with instantaneous, nonlinear cation exchange in both regions. It was found that the fraction of exchange sites in dynamic equilibrium with the mobile solution and the first-order mass transfer coefficient should be regarded as a priori unknown. The mass transfer coefficient for chloride ions was found to be significantly higher than that for cations. Other transport parameters could be estimated independently of potassium transport, using chloride ion as a tracer. In soils with low cation exchange capacity, the sensitivity of the model to the cation exchange parameters is relatively high, thus necessitating a careful experimental determination of these parameters.
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