Modeling the fate of chemical constituents such as cations and anions, organic and inorganic ligands, etc., is essential to understand the long-term utility of groundwater for various purposes. The chemical modeling helps to describe the chemical characteristic of an aqueous system to solve a simultaneous set of equations, which explains the equilibrium reactions and mass balance on dissolved element for the output consists of theoretical distribution of aqueous species for dissolved elements. The book in total includes ten papers dealing with the instrumentation techniques for the analysis of various major, minor ions and trace elements and focuses on the geochemical modeling to get a prime idea about the different concepts adopted in modeling and the evolution of different geochemical models. The chapters cover the speciation of different ions, case studies by using inverse and forward modeling in different Indian scenarios, application of GIS and biogeochemical modeling to get a comprehensive overview of the applications of the geochemical models in water research.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR S Chidambaram
S. Chidambaram, Reader in Annamalai University: he took his graduation and master's degree in Geology with distinction (gold medal and merit scholarship) from Madurai Kamraj University and Annamalai University (1996) respectively. While being engaged in research as JRF in MoEF project in Annamalai University, completed his PhD in Hydrogeochemistry of groundwater in Erode district, Tamilnadu (2000). During the course of his research work he cleared SLET under UGC and joined as a lecturer in Annamalai University in 1998 and guided few M.Sc., M.Phil and PhD dissertations. He has developed program in C++ for hydro geochemical studies and his work was selected as the best paper in the International conference AHI in 2004. he got few major research projects from DST, UGC & government agencies on ground water quality International and also serving as a technical consultant for BBV, Englandand VRV consultants, Chennai in a project fro a water demand management for the overexploited regions in Chennai in DFID project. He has presented and published few papers in international and national journals.
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