Simulation of experimental synthetic DNA tracer transport through the vadose zone
| Autor: | Chaozi Wang, Geng Liu, Coy P. McNew, Till Hannes Moritz Volkmann, Luke Pangle, Peter A. Troch, Steven W. Lyon, Minseok Kim, Zailin Huo, Helen E. Dahlke |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Environmental Engineering
Deoxyribonucleases Soil-water systems Ecological Modeling Vadose zone Water Synthetic DNA tracer Models Theoretical Deuterium Pollution Soil Theoretical Models Sand Water Movements Variably saturated Viral pathogen pollution Waste Management and Disposal HYDRUS-2D Groundwater Water Science and Technology Civil and Structural Engineering |
| Zdroj: | Water research. 223 |
| ISSN: | 1879-2448 |
| Popis: | Although multiple experimental studies have proven the use of free synthetic DNA as tracers in hydrological systems, their quantitative fate and transport, especially through the vadose zone, is still not well understood. Here we simulate the water flow and breakthrough of deuterium (D) and one free synthetic DNA tracer from a 10-day experiment conducted in a transient variably saturated 1m3 10° sloped lysimeter using the HYDRUS-2D software package. Recovery and breakthrough flux of D (97.78%) and the DNA tracer (1.05%) were captured well with the advection-dispersion equation (R2=0.949, NSE=0.937) and the Schijven and Šimůnek two-site kinetic sorption model recommended for virus transport modeling (R2=0.824, NSE=0.823), respectively. The degradation of the DNA tracer was very slow (estimated to be 10% in 10 days), because the "loamy sand" porous media in our lysimeter was freshly crushed basaltic tephra (i.e., crushed rocks) and the microbes and DNase that could potentially degrade DNA in regular soils were rare in our "loamy sand". The timing of the concentration peaks and the HYDRUS-2D simulated temporal and spatial distribution of DNA in the lysimeter both revealed the role of the solid-water-air contact lines in mobilizing and carrying DNA tracer under the experimental variably saturated transient flow condition. The free DNA was nearly non-selectively transported through the porous media, and showed a slightly early breakthrough, possibly due to a slight effect of anion exclusion or size exclusion. Our results indicate that free DNA have the potential to trace vadose zone water flow and solute/contaminant transport, and to serve as surrogates to trace viral pathogen pollution in soil-water systems. To our knowledge, this study is the first to simulate transport mechanisms of free synthetic DNA tracers through real soil textured porous media under variably saturated transient flow condition. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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