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lentille d’hydrocarbures surnageants

English translation: lens of hydrocarbons floating on ...

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French term or phrase:lentille d’hydrocarbures surnageants
English translation:lens of hydrocarbons floating on ...
Entered by: B D Finch

13:02 Apr 11, 2017
French to English translations [PRO]
Environment & Ecology
French term or phrase: lentille d’hydrocarbures surnageants
According to a section of a deed of sale of commercial property entitled 'Protection de l'environnement', the vendor has had various reports drafted on the condition of the soil, subsoil, etc. One of these reports is entitled 'Mise en place de piézomètres et vérification de l’extension éventuelle de la *lentille d’hydrocarbures surnageants* au toit de la nappe'.
Sarah Russell
United Kingdom
Local time: 04:37
lens of hydrocarbons floating on ...
Explanation:
It actually is lens-shaped.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2010WR010369/pdf
19 Nov 2011 - groundwater–dense nonaqueous phase liquid (DNAPL) or ... engineers hunt for oil lenses (rims) with a small oil-to-water ratio in the bulk well ...

https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~crb/web/GWATER1.pdfgroundwater development can be found in the hydrocarbon world where the ..... (1996) used a similar approach to map the fresh water lens floating on the.

https://goo.gl/LhDjYB
by KD Pennell - ‎1999 -
A semianalytical method for evaluating groundwater velocity of an unconfined ...... Surfactant on Configuration of Petroleum Hydrocarbon Lens. J. Soil. Contam
... It was illustrated that as a result of lowering 1FT, the location and geometry of LNAPL lens on top of the water table and the polluted capillary fringe were significantly altered when surfactant solution was applied to the model."

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
The receptor is a nearby river that as yet has not been impacted by the groundwater plume. ..... Free hydrocarbons have been noted floating on top of groundwater in the west of the site and on ...



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B D Finch
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Local time: 05:37
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Summary of answers provided
3 +1hydrocarbon lens at the water table
Claude B
4lens of hydrocarbons floating on ...
B D Finch
4floating oil/hydrocarbon lens on the aquifer
Drmanu49
3film of surface hydrocarbons
Marco Solinas


  

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16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
film of surface hydrocarbons


Explanation:
This is the meaning. It can be expressed in various other ways.

Marco Solinas
Local time: 20:37
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in ItalianItalian
PRO pts in category: 30

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Tony M: In this particular context, the use of 'surface' may be inadvisable, as we are talking about a (usually underground!) 'nappe phréatique' — hence 'surface' takes on a quite different connotation.
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hydrocarbon lens at the water table


Explanation:
Found in reference below :



    https://books.google.fr/books?id=6q1zJVKegCsC&pg=PA354&dq=hydrocarbon+lens&hl=fr&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjmxf6uw5zTAhWCRBoKHSS-BAEQ6AEIJDAA#v=onepag
Claude B
France
Local time: 05:37
Works in field
Native speaker of: French

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  B D Finch: Agree with "hydrocarbon lens", but not "at the water table".
8 mins
agree  Vissertrans: Or ON the water table. A more faithful rendering of the original would be "lens of supernatant hydrocarbons on the water table".
27 mins
neutral  Drmanu49: disagree with water table, it is an aquifer in this context.
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45 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
lens of hydrocarbons floating on ...


Explanation:
It actually is lens-shaped.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2010WR010369/pdf
19 Nov 2011 - groundwater–dense nonaqueous phase liquid (DNAPL) or ... engineers hunt for oil lenses (rims) with a small oil-to-water ratio in the bulk well ...

https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~crb/web/GWATER1.pdfgroundwater development can be found in the hydrocarbon world where the ..... (1996) used a similar approach to map the fresh water lens floating on the.

https://goo.gl/LhDjYB
by KD Pennell - ‎1999 -
A semianalytical method for evaluating groundwater velocity of an unconfined ...... Surfactant on Configuration of Petroleum Hydrocarbon Lens. J. Soil. Contam
... It was illustrated that as a result of lowering 1FT, the location and geometry of LNAPL lens on top of the water table and the polluted capillary fringe were significantly altered when surfactant solution was applied to the model."

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
The receptor is a nearby river that as yet has not been impacted by the groundwater plume. ..... Free hydrocarbons have been noted floating on top of groundwater in the west of the site and on ...





B D Finch
France
Local time: 05:37
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 39
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floating oil/hydrocarbon lens on the aquifer


Explanation:
Documentation of time-scales for onset of natural attenuation in an ...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25617779 - Traduire cette page
de V Ponsin - ‎2015 - ‎Cité 2 fois - ‎Autres articles
21 janv. 2015 - A pipeline transporting crude-oil broke in a nature reserve in 2009 and ... partly reached the aquifer and formed progressively a floating oil lens.

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Very likely to be nappe phréatique

Biotechnology in Industrial Waste Treatment and Bioremediation
https://books.google.fr/books?isbn=0873719166 - Traduire cette page
Gretchen Smith - 1995 - ‎Science
... compounds into the medium to be treated, which can be soil and/or groundwater. ... for precise location of the lens of floating hydrocarbons: immediately afterwards, ... alluvium that also contains the great phreatic aquifer of the Alsatian plain.

Drmanu49
France
Local time: 05:37
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 90
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