Print Email Facebook Twitter Transport of silica encapsulated DNA microparticles in controlled instantaneous injection open channel experiments Title Transport of silica encapsulated DNA microparticles in controlled instantaneous injection open channel experiments Author Tang, Yuchen (TU Delft Water Resources) Foppen, J.W.A. (TU Delft Water Resources; IHE Delft Institute for Water Education) Bogaard, T.A. (TU Delft Water Resources) Date 2021 Abstract Surface water tracing is a widely used technique to investigate in-stream mass transport including contaminant migration. Recently, a microparticle tracer was developed with unique synthetic DNA encapsulated in an environmentally-friendly silica coating (Si-DNA microparticle). Previous tracing applications of such tracers reported detection and quantification, but a massive loss of tracer mass. However, the transport behavior of these DNA-tagged microparticle tracers has not been rigorously quantified and compared with that of solute tracers. Therefore, we compared the transport behavior of Si-DNA microparticles to the behavior of solute NaCl in 6 different, environmentally representative water types using breakthrough curves (BTCs), obtained from laboratory open channel injection experiments, whereby no Si-DNA microparticle tracer mass was lost. Hereafter, we modelled the BTCs using a 1-D advection-dispersion model with one transient storage zone (OTIS) by calibrating the hydrodynamic dispersion coefficient D and a storage zone exchange rate coefficient. We concluded that the transport behavior of Si-DNA microparticles resembled that of NaCl in surface-water relevant conditions, evidenced by BTCs with a similar range of D; however, the Si-DNA microparticle had a more erratic BTC than its solute counterpart, whereby the scatter increased as a function of water quality complexity. The overall larger confidence interval of DSi-DNA was attributed to the discrete nature of colloidal particles with a certain particle size distribution and possibly minor shear-induced aggregations. This research established a solid methodological foundation for field application of Si-DNA microparticles in surface water tracing, providing insight in transport behavior of equivalent sized and mass particles in rivers. Subject DNAHydrodynamic dispersionMicroparticle tracersSurface water To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c39bdb82-5c00-400d-a5b0-e79a9e938431 DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jconhyd.2021.103880 ISSN 0169-7722 Source Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 242 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2021 Yuchen Tang, J.W.A. Foppen, T.A. Bogaard Files PDF 1_s2.0_S0169772221001194_main.pdf 1.08 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:c39bdb82-5c00-400d-a5b0-e79a9e938431/datastream/OBJ/view