Reactive transport as a research focus has surged in recent years, although as a recognized academic discipline within the Earth and environmental sciences it continues to languish, perhaps because it is a multi-disciplinary topic that falls between the cracks of the legacy fields of geochemistry, hydrology, and engineering. The multi-disciplinary field of reactive transport (RT) was inaugurated 20 years ago with the publication of Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry 34: Reactive Transport in Porous Media. RT principles have expanded beyond early applications largely based in contaminant hydrology to become broadly utilized throughout the Earth and environmental sciences. RT is now employed to address a wide variety of natural and engineered systems across diverse spatial and temporal scales, in tandem with advances in computational capability, quantitative imaging and reactive interface characterization techniques. This breadth of application demonstrates an increasing recognition among the Earth and environmental science community of the balance between chemical reactivity and transport of (multiple) phases and the coupled nature of these processes in the terrestrial environment. Within the RT discipline, reactive transport modeling certainly plays a prominent role, since it has shown to be an essential tool for the analysis of coupled physical, chemical, and biological processes in Earth systems, and has the additional potential to integrate the results from fundamental research. Using a modern reactive transport approach, it is possible to provide predictive capabilities for Earth and environmental systems that go well beyond the empirical models in wide use today.
2-5 Oct. 2017. Reactive Transport in the Earth and Environmental Sciences for the 21st Century (Amboise, France)
Organizers: Christophe Tournassat, Carl Steefel & Jennifer Druhan with the great help of Valérie Deplanque & Sara Hefty
The RT-Amboise workshop is dedicated to current developments and future directions in reactive transport as applied to natural and engineered systems in the Earth and environmental sciences. The principal purpose of this meeting was to inaugurate a series of international workshops on reactive transport that will review the state of the art and future directions in the field on a regular basis every two years. An additional purpose was the development of chapters and identification of authors and topics for a new volume in the Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry (RiMG) series, which will serve as an update to the 1996 volume on the same topic.
Invited presentations
Carl Steefel. Reactive Transport at the Crossroads
Benoit Cochepin. Alkaline plume in the Aptian Sand Aquifer in the Context of Low-Level Radioactive Waste Surface Disposal
Olivier Bildstein. Coupling reactive transport models with specific alteration models for engineered materials: the example of steel corrosion
Vincent Lagneau. Reactive transport from academic research to industrial deployment: uranium ISR
Josep Soler. Portland cement – rock interaction in the geological disposal of radioactive waste. Examples from modeling of laboratory/field experiments and natural/industrial analogues.
Uli Mayer. Reactive transport in evolving porous media – Challenges and opportunities
Li Li. Hydrogeochemical coupling Drives Chemostatic Behavior in Stream Chemistry : a reactive transport perspective at the watershed scale
Steve Yabusaki. Hydrobiogeochemistry in the Plant-Soil Interactome
Jerôme Corvisier. Considering gases in reactive-transport codes
Diederik Jacques. Reactive transport with emphasis on vadose zone applications - Overview of the HPx codes
Peter Knabner. Micro-Macro Models for Reactive Flow and Transport Problems in Porous Media
Catherine Noiriel. Challenging reactive transport modeling from pore scale observations
Nikolaos Prasianakis. Cross-scale modeling of precipitation processes
Sergi Molins. Perspectives on reactive transport pore scale modeling
Tony Appelo. Extracting the chemical and physical properties of concrete pores from electro-migration experiments
Muhammad Muniruzzaman. Coulombic interactions during advection-dominated transport of ions in porous media: Experiments and modeling
Christophe Tournassat. Diffusion in clays. Continuum and micro-continuum approaches
Hang Deng. Fracture evolution in multi-mineral systems: the role of mineral compositions, flow rate and geometric heterogeneity
Jenna Poonoosamy. Dissolution-precipitation processes in confined media: experimental benchmarks for reactive transport modelling at different scales
Cyprien Soulaine. Pore-scale simulation of reactive mass transfer with a micro-continuum approach
Delphine Roubinet. A new Time Domain Random Walk approach for modeling reactive transport processes in heterogeneous fractured porous media
Branko Bijelic. Imaging and Modeling of Flow and Reactive Transport in Subsurface Rock and the Importance of Distribution Functions
Tanguy Leborgne. Impact of mixing processes on biogeochemical reactions
Maria Repina. Nuclear glass alteration: bridging the gap from surface reactivity description to reactive transport at the scale of the fractured block
John Zachara. Surface complexation from the grain to plume scale in a gravel aquifer influenced by surface water exchange: considerations and challenges for predictability with reactive transport models.
Pierre Frugier. Modeling passivation process in a reactive transport code
Jordi Cama. The montmorillonite dissolution kinetics: experimental data and RT modeling
Xingyuan Chen. Sensitivity analysis of complex biogeochemical models using bayesian networks
Jennifer Druhan. Isotopic reactive transport for improved simulation of subsurface biogeochemical dynamics in heterogeneous systems
Poster presentations
M. Carme Chaparro. Modelling of reactive transport, multiphase flow and double porosity in a concrete cell storing radioactive waste at El Cabril (Spain)
Cornelius Fischer. Variability in crystal surface reactivity: A critical constraint for reactive transport modeling
Lotfollah Karimzadeh. Reactive transport modelling based on parameters obtained from GeoPET analysis of column leaching experiments
Nicolas Seigneur. Modelling pore-size-dependent kinetics in reactive transport codes
Attendees
Myriam Agnel
Pierre Delmelle
Charlotte Le Traon
Emmanuel Le Trong
Romain Millot
Jens Oberlander
Ashish Rajyaguru
Elena Skuratova
Tobias Elbinger
