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Modelling transverse mixing of sediment and vanadium in a river impacted by oil sands mining operations

dc.contributor.authorLindenschmidt, Karl-Erich
dc.contributor.authorSabokruhie, Pouya
dc.contributor.authorRosner, Tammy
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-18T23:03:00Z
dc.date.available2023-07-18T23:03:00Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description2214-5818/© 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).en_US
dc.description.abstractStudy region: The lower Athabasca River was used as a test case using total suspended sediment, chloride and vanadium as the model variables. Upstream model boundary conditions included water from the tributary Clearwater River (right stream tube) and the upper Athabasca River extending upstream of the tributary mouth (left stream tube). This model will be extended to include the Peace-Athabasca Delta (PAD), to determine the implications of mining outfall discharges on a large region of the Athabasca – PAD region. Study focus: A novel, quasi-two-dimensional surface water-quality modelling approach is presented in which the model domain can be discretised in two dimensions, but a one-dimension solver can still be applied to capture water flow between the discretisation units (segments). The approach requires a river reach to be divided into two stream tubes, along the left and right river sides, with flows exchanging through the segments longitudinally and also laterally between adjacent segments along the two streams. New hydrological insights for the region: The new method allows the transverse mixing of tributary and outfall water of different constituent concentrations to be simulated along the course of the river. Additional diffuse loading of dissolved vanadium could be determined from the model’s substance balance. A scenario was then simulated in which the transport and fate of vanadium in a floodplain lake and a secondary channel was determined.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipAlberta Environment and Parks (fund # 1-424411-1323-8000) and the University of Saskatchewan’s Global Water Futures Research Program (fund # 1-419204-1293-8000)en_US
dc.description.versionPeer Revieweden_US
dc.identifier.citationLindenschmidt, K.-E., Sabokruhie, P.,Rosner, T. (2022). Modelling transverse mixing of sediment and vanadium in a river impacted by oil sands mining operations. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 40 (2022) 101043. https:// doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2022.101043en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.ejrh.2022.101043
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10388/14816
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherElsevier B.V.en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectOil sandsen_US
dc.subjectQuasi-two-dimensional modelen_US
dc.subjectSedimenten_US
dc.subjectVanadiumen_US
dc.subjectWASPen_US
dc.titleModelling transverse mixing of sediment and vanadium in a river impacted by oil sands mining operationsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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