diff --git a/RELEASE.TXT b/RELEASE.TXT index 818dbaeb..81b130da 100644 --- a/RELEASE.TXT +++ b/RELEASE.TXT @@ -1,4 +1,44 @@ Version @PHREEQC_VER@: @PHREEQC_DATE@ + --------- + svn 10759 + --------- + Created an option to enter cell-porosties in keyword TRANSPORT: + + -porosities 0.3 0.29 0.28 # porosities of cells 1, 2, 3-n, used for calculating + # tortuosity in multicomponent diffusion calculations. The + # numbers entered here take precedence over the value given + # with -multi_D. If one stagnant layer is defined together with + # an exchange-factor > 0 ('-stagnant 1 4e-6 0.3 0.1'), the + # mobile (here = 0.3) and immobile (here = 0.1) porosities + # defined with -stagnant are used. + + The electric potential can be defined in keyword SOLUTION: + -potential 3 # Volt + + The effect of an electrical field on multicomponent diffusion (electro-migration) is calculated with + the Nernst-Planck equation if one of the 2 column end-cell solutions has a potential different from 0 + (SOLUTION 0, SOLUTION cells + 1). For examples of electro-migration, see + http://www.hydrochemistry.eu/exmpls/electro_dif.html + + Added special BASIC functions for obtaining parameters calculated in electro-migration: + CURRENT_A # the current (A) through the column + POT_V # potential (V) in a cell + + If the properties in a regular column (surface areas, lengths, double layers, + tortuosities, diffusion coefficients) are different for the two cells, the harmonic + mean is used for calculating the mass transfer (Appelo et al., 2010, Geochim. Cosmochim. + Acta 74, 1201-1219). + + A temperature damping factor was added for the temperature effect of viscosity on the diffusion + coefficient of a solute species: + +SOLUTION_SPECIES +H+ = H+ + -dw 9.31e-9 831 # Dw(TK) = 9.31e-9 * exp(831 / TK - 831 / 298.15) * TK * 0.89 / (298.15 * viscos) + + The equation was proposed by Smolyakov, according to Anderko and Lencka, 1997, Ind. Chem. Eng. Res. + 36, 1932–1943. + --------- svn 10409 ---------