Pavan Cornelissen

Wageningen University & Research | WUR · Department of Soil Physics and Land Management

The use of marginal water, such as reclaimed wastewater or effluent, for irrigation can reduce the pressure on existing freshwater resources. However, this can cause contaminants to accumulate in compartments such as the soil, crop, air, surface- and groundwater, which may harm the public health and the environment. Environmental quality standards...

Marginal water, like treated effluent or other types of wastewater, induces contaminant accumulation in different environmental compartments such as soil and groundwater. With a root zone model and daily rainfall data as input, accumulation in the case of two different degradation concepts was modeled: (I) the solute degrades only in the solution p...

Soil salinity and sodicity are among the oldest soil and groundwater pollution problems and are widespread across the globe. Where salinity affects crop water uptake and yield, sodicity may additionally cause poorly reversible soil structure degradation and a severely reduced hydraulic conductivity. We use the model HYDRUS‐1D to simulate sodicity d...

Upscaling the microscopic processes in charged porous media which are responsible for pore pressure evolution and swelling is a topic of ongoing research. Current theories assume homogeneous media with uniform pore sizes and the impact of microscopic heterogeneity is neglected. This is a preliminary study to determine the significance of such pore-...