Effect of Soil Properties on Saturated and Unsaturated Virus Transport through Columns
Yanjie Chua,c,
Yan Jin*,a,
Thomas Baumannb and
Marylynn V. Yatesc
a Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19717
b Institute of Hydrochemistry, Technical University of Munich, Marchioninistrasse 17, D-81377, Munich, Germany
c Y. Chu, current address), Department of Environmental Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521

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Fig. 1. Transport of bromide tracer through Delaware 1 and 2, California, Arizona, and Georgia soil columns. The term C/C0 refers to the ratio of outflow concentration to input concentration. (Bromide curve was not measured for the saturated experiment with Georgia soil by accident).
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Fig. 2. Virus breakthrough curves from columns packed with Delaware 1 and 2 soils. The term C/C0 refers to the ratio of outflow concentration to input concentration.
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Fig. 3. Virus breakthrough curves from columns packed with soils California, Arizona, and Georgia. The term C/C0 refers to the ratio of outflow concentration to input concentration.
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