Estudo da propagação das plumas dos contaminantes 1,2 dicloroetano 1,2 dicloropropano e 1,2,3 tricloropropano no aquífero Barreiras na área do polo cloroquímico de Alagoas.

Abstract

This dissertation presents the resulta of the research done on contaraination of "Aquífero Barreiras" by organo-chlorides, in the Pole- Choloro-chemicais of Alagoas - PCA. The cheraical substances involved in the process that are Products which pose strong toxiclty, affected the quality of the aquifer in question, creating .significant environaental impact as a grave problem. The more important of these contaminants were the 1,2 Di-chloroehtane (1,2 - DCE), 1,2 D i-chioropropane (1,2 DCP) and 1,2,3 Tri-chloropropane (1,2,3 - TCE), which appeared in greater concentrations, because of which the present investigation was attempted. The Aquifer "Barreiras", within the PCA area has a nean depth of 20 m, lithoiogicaliy represented by a packet of sandysilt stratum, sandwitched by discontinuous clayey material, thus characterizing on the whole as a freatic aquifer. The "flow raodel" adopted, based on the finite d i fferenr.es method - the Algorithm of IAOI (Kinzelback, 1986), utilized data extracted from the reports of an enterprize by naie "Paranaguá' Eng inssr ing and Cônsultants Ltd. ÍÍ99Í). The cited raodel was found to be adequate for the purpose of simulating the two-dímentional flows in places where data is available. Values of hydrodynamic parameters of the aquifer were obtaíned frora the resulto of flow model and the raean linear propagation velocity in the aquifer, based on the input values, was of the order of 0.672 m/day, in the N.W. - S.E. frora S.E. direction. PIume propagations for the above mentioned comtaminants were geenerated utilizing the "transport model", based on the explicit finite difference method as suggested by Kinzelbach (í?G6). Concentrations taken as reference for the model calibration were those values registered in the product ion and observation wells (Paranaguá, 1991), the results of which were analyzed by an American laboratory by name Industrial and Environmental Anaíyses, Inc. (I.E.A.). Dispite the simplicity of the model, principally considering the porous media as homogeneous and isotropic, and considering the chemicals as conservative, i.e., chemical substances that do not react with water, the plurne for 1,2 - DCP showed results that confirmed the varacity of the model. The plumes for 1,2 - DCE and 1,2,3 - TCP and for total organo-chlorides that are projected on the basis of analysis of the laboratory of Alagoas Industrial Co. -CINAL, also showed sufficiently reliable results.