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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.