Evaluating the dissolution and natural attenuation of jet fuel at a former tank farm
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Fuel handling practices at the former National Defence tank farm in Ottawa, Canada, resulted in the release of jet fuel to the subsurface. A site investigation was undertaken to determine the extent of the contamination and to evaluate the effectiveness of natural attenuation as a remedial alternative for the contaminated groundwater. A soil-vapour study and borehole and test pit soil samples aided in conceptualizing the residual jet fuel source term. BioRedox-MT3DMS was used to simulate the dissolution of the multicomponent jet fuel and the subsequent transport and biodegradation of the various hydrocarbon components in the underlying aquifer. The model was able to simulate and support the data collected at the site to indicate that natural attenuation processes were effectively reducing contaminant concentrations and mass, and that the spatial extent of the plume had effectively reached a steady state. In addition, the model indicated that the source term would remain for many years due to the slow dissolution and biodegradation rates of the heavier hydrocarbons. Key words: natural attenuation, NAPL dissolution, biodegradation, modelling, BioRedox-MT3DMS, jet fuel, petroleum hydrocarbons, redox conditions.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".