USCD1158 BALANCE.

BALANCE, Mass Transfer in Groundwater Aqueous Solution

NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM, COMPUTER, DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM OR FUNCTION, METHOD OF SOLUTION, RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM, TYPICAL RUNNING TIME, UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM, RELATED AND AUXILIARY PROGRAMS, STATUS, REFERENCES, MACHINE REQUIREMENTS, LANGUAGE, OPERATING SYSTEM UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED, OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS, NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORS, MATERIAL, CATEGORIES

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1. NAME OR DESIGNATION OF PROGRAM: BALANCE.

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2. COMPUTERS

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Program name	Package id	Status	Status date
BALANCE	USCD1158/01	Tested	08-OCT-1990

Machines used:

Package ID	Orig. computer	Test computer
USCD1158/01	IBM PC	IBM PC

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3. DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM OR FUNCTION

BALANCE calculates the mass transfer (amounts of solid or gaseous phases entering or leaving the aqueous phase) necessary to account for the observed change in composition between two solutions. The program can also help to define and quantify chemical reactions that take place between groundwater and minerals.

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4. METHOD OF SOLUTION:

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5. RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPLEXITY OF THE PROBLEM:

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6. TYPICAL RUNNING TIME:

USCD1158/01

he test case included in this package was executed by NEA-DB on an IBM PC/AT compatible computer in about 1 second.

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7. UNUSUAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM:

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8. RELATED AND AUXILIARY PROGRAMS: WATEQF, PHREEQE.

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9. STATUS

Package ID	Status date	Status
USCD1158/01	08-OCT-1990	Tested at NEADB

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10. REFERENCES

- D. L. Parkhurst, L. N. Plummer, D. C. Thorstenson:
  "BALANCE - A computer program for calculating mass transfer for
   geochemical reactions in ground water"
  U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations 82-14(1982)

USCD1158/01, included references:

- J.W. Ball and D.K. Nordstrom :
  WATEQ4F--: A Personal Computer Fortran Translation of the
  Geochemical Model WATEQ2 with Revised Data Base
  US Geological Survey Open-File Report 87-50 (1987)
- J.W. Ball :
  Erata and Revision Sheet for Open-File report 87-50 WATEQ4F
  (March 7, 1988)
- D.L.Parkhurst, D.C. Thorstenson and L.N. Plummer:
  PHREEQE - A Computer Program for Geochemical Calculations.
  USGS/WRI-80-96  (Rev. January 1985)
- G.W. Fleming and L.N. Plummer:
  PHRQINPT - An Interactive Computer Program for Constructing Input
  Data Sets to the Geochemical Simulation Program PHREEQE
  USGS/WRI-83-4236  (1983)
- D.L.Parkhurst, L.N. Plummer and D.C. Thorstenson:
  BALANCE - A Computer Program for Calculating Mass Transfer for
  Geochemical Reactions in Ground Water.
  USGS/WRI-82-14 (1982)

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11. MACHINE REQUIREMENTS:

USCD1158/01

Main storage requirements on an IBM PC/AT are about 40K Bytes.

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12. PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE(S) USED

Package ID	Computer language
USCD1158/01	FORTRAN-77

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13. OPERATING SYSTEM UNDER WHICH PROGRAM IS EXECUTED:

USCD1158/01

The program ran under MSDOS version 3.20. The compilers Microsoft FORTRAN version 5.0 and RM/FORTRAN version 2.4 were used.

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14. OTHER PROGRAMMING OR OPERATING INFORMATION OR RESTRICTIONS:

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15. NAME AND ESTABLISHMENT OF AUTHORS

D. L. Parkhurst, L. N. Plummer and D. C. Thorstenson
U.S. Geological Survey

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16. MATERIAL AVAILABLE

USCD1158/01

File name	File description	Records
USCD1158_01.001	NEA DATA BANK information file .	61
USCD1158_01.002	Sample case output file .	75
USCD1158_01.003	Executable image .	0
USCD1158_01.004	Sample case input data file .	44
USCD1158_01.005	Linear equation solver Fortran source .	90
USCD1158_01.006	BALANCE Fortran source .	176
USCD1158_01.007	DOS file-names	6

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17. CATEGORIES

R. Environmental and Earth Sciences

Keywords: aqueous solutions, ground water, mass balance, mass transfer, minerals, multiphase flow.