Hyperventilate: Decision-support software for soil vapor extraction technology application

Technical Report · Mon Feb 01 04:00:00 EST 1993

OSTI ID:6530081

Kruger, C A; Morse, J G

Soil vapor extraction (SVE) is a proven, in situ corrective action technology that can remove volatile organic compounds (VOC) and selected residual petroleum hydrocarbons from unsaturated soils. To assist regulators, investigators, and UST owners in evaluating whether SVE is an appropriate cleanup technology for use at UST sites, decision-support software entitled HyperVentilate has been developed. HyperVentilate is an interactive, software guidance system for evaluating the feasibility of using SVE at a specific site based on site and contaminant characteristics. HyperVentilate is designed to: (1) identify the level of site data required to evaluate SVE systems, (2) evaluate soil permeability test results, (3) approximate the minimum number of extraction wells likely to be needed, and (4) provide a rough approximation of the system's desired and maximum removal rates. The document provides guidance in evaluating the use of the IBM-compatible version of HyperVentilate that requires a computer equipped minimum with 80386 processor, 4 MB RAM, DOS 3.1, Microsoft Windows 3.x, and Spinnaker PLUS 2.5. An overview of SVE principles and procedures is presented along with the basic model principles and a sensitivity analysis of HyperVentilate. A sample application of the software is also presented using data from an actual UST site.

• Research Organization: IT Corp., Knoxville, TN (United States)
• OSTI ID: 6530081
• Report Number(s): PB-93-134880/XAB; CNN: EPA-68-C2-0108
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
540220* -- Environment
Terrestrial-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (1990-)
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
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AROMATICS
COMPUTER-AIDED INSTRUCTION
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
CONTAINERS
DECISION MAKING
DOCUMENT TYPES
EDUCATION
ENERGY SOURCES
EXTRACTION
FEASIBILITY STUDIES
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
HYDROCARBONS
LAND POLLUTION
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
PERMEABILITY
PETROLEUM
POLLUTION
PROGRAMMING
REGULATORY GUIDES
REMEDIAL ACTION
REMOVAL
RESIDUAL PETROLEUM
SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS
SEPARATION EQUIPMENT
SEPARATION PROCESSES
SIMULATION
SOILS
STORAGE
TANKS
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
TRAINING
UNDERGROUND STORAGE
VAPOR SEPARATORS
WELLS