README.md

easyphreeqc

The goal of easyphreeqc is to provide a more useful interface to the existing phreeqc package.

Installation

You can install easyphreeqc from github with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("paleolimbot/easyphreeqc")

Example

Running PHREEQC is accomplished using the phreeqc() function, which calls the program and generates the output. The function accepts character vectors of input, which can be generated using intput helper functions such as solution(), selected_output(), equilibrium_phases(), and reaction_temperature() (or roll your own input using phreeqc_input()). To get the raw output of PHREEQC, you will have to pass quiet = FALSE.

library(easyphreeqc)
phreeqc(
  solution(pH = 7, temp = 25),
  quiet = FALSE
)
#> ------------------------------------
#> Reading input data for simulation 1.
#> ------------------------------------
#> 
#>  SOLUTION 1
#>      pH    7
#>      temp    25
#> -------------------------------------------
#> Beginning of initial solution calculations.
#> -------------------------------------------
#> 
#> Initial solution 1.  
#> 
#> -----------------------------Solution composition------------------------------
#> 
#>  Elements           Molality       Moles
#> 
#>  Pure water     
#> 
#> ----------------------------Description of solution----------------------------
#> 
#>                                        pH  =   7.000    
#>                                        pe  =   4.000    
#>       Specific Conductance (uS/cm,  25oC)  = 0
#>                           Density (g/cm3)  =   0.99704
#>                                Volume (L)  =   1.00297
#>                         Activity of water  =   1.000
#>                  Ionic strength (mol/kgw)  =   1.007e-07
#>                        Mass of water (kg)  =   1.000e+00
#>                  Total alkalinity (eq/kg)  =   1.217e-09
#>                     Total carbon (mol/kg)  =   0.000e+00
#>                        Total CO2 (mol/kg)  =   0.000e+00
#>                          Temperature (oC)  =  25.00
#>                   Electrical balance (eq)  =  -1.217e-09
#>  Percent error, 100*(Cat-|An|)/(Cat+|An|)  =  -0.60
#>                                Iterations  =   0
#>                                   Total H  = 1.110124e+02
#>                                   Total O  = 5.550622e+01
#> 
#> ----------------------------Distribution of species----------------------------
#> 
#>                                                Log       Log       Log    mole V
#>    Species          Molality    Activity  Molality  Activity     Gamma   cm3/mol
#> 
#>    OH-             1.013e-07   1.012e-07    -6.995    -6.995    -0.000     -4.14
#>    H+              1.001e-07   1.000e-07    -7.000    -7.000    -0.000      0.00
#>    H2O             5.551e+01   1.000e+00     1.744     0.000     0.000     18.07
#> H(0)          1.416e-25
#>    H2              7.079e-26   7.079e-26   -25.150   -25.150     0.000     28.61
#> O(0)          0.000e+00
#>    O2              0.000e+00   0.000e+00   -42.080   -42.080     0.000     30.40
#> 
#> ------------------------------Saturation indices-------------------------------
#> 
#>   Phase               SI** log IAP   log K(298 K,   1 atm)
#> 
#>   H2(g)           -22.05    -25.15   -3.10  H2
#>   H2O(g)           -1.50      0.00    1.50  H2O
#>   O2(g)           -39.19    -42.08   -2.89  O2
#> 
#> **For a gas, SI = log10(fugacity). Fugacity = pressure * phi / 1 atm.
#>   For ideal gases, phi = 1.
#> 
#> ------------------
#> End of simulation.
#> ------------------
#> 
#> ------------------------------------
#> Reading input data for simulation 2.
#> ------------------------------------
#> 
#> ----------------------------------
#> End of Run after 0.551305 Seconds.
#> ----------------------------------
#> Specify at least one selected_output() to retreive results as a data.frame
#> NULL

To get the results as a data frame, we need to supply a selected_output() to the input file.

phreeqc(
  solution(pH = 7, temp = 25),
  selected_output(pH = TRUE, temp = TRUE, activities = c("OH-", "H+", "O2"))
)
#> # A tibble: 1 × 12
#>     sim  state  soln dist_x  time  step    pH    pe temp.C.    la_OH.
#> * <int>  <chr> <int>  <dbl> <dbl> <int> <dbl> <dbl>   <dbl>     <dbl>
#> 1     1 i_soln     1     NA    NA    NA     7     4      25 -6.994685
#> # ... with 2 more variables: la_H. <dbl>, la_O2 <dbl>

To find the distribution of a few solutions, you can add solutions to the input (you will have to number them).

phreeqc(
  solution(1, pH = 6, temp = 25),
  solution(2, pH = 7, temp = 25),
  solution(3, pH = 8, temp = 25),
  selected_output(pH = TRUE, temp = TRUE, activities = c("OH-", "H+", "O2"))
)
#> # A tibble: 3 × 12
#>     sim  state  soln dist_x  time  step    pH    pe temp.C.    la_OH.
#> * <int>  <chr> <int>  <dbl> <dbl> <int> <dbl> <dbl>   <dbl>     <dbl>
#> 1     1 i_soln     1     NA    NA    NA     6     4      25 -7.994752
#> 2     1 i_soln     2     NA    NA    NA     7     4      25 -6.994685
#> 3     1 i_soln     3     NA    NA    NA     8     4      25 -5.994752
#> # ... with 2 more variables: la_H. <dbl>, la_O2 <dbl>

Databases

Some elements (for example, mercury) aren't included in the base database. There are a number of databases included in the PHREEQC package, that you can choose by specifying the db argument of phreeqc(). One that includes mercury is the "minteq" database.

phreeqc(
  solution(1, pH = 7, temp = 25, Hg = 0.1),
  solution(2, pH = 7, temp = 25, Hg = 0.2),
  solution(3, pH = 7, temp = 25, Hg = 0.3),
  selected_output(activities = c("Hg", "Hg2+2", "Hg(OH)2", "Hg(OH)2",
                                 "HgOH+", "Hg(OH)3-")),
  db = "minteq"
)
#> # A tibble: 3 × 13
#>     sim  state  soln dist_x  time  step    pH    pe     la_Hg  la_Hg2.2
#> * <int>  <chr> <int>  <dbl> <dbl> <int> <dbl> <dbl>     <dbl>     <dbl>
#> 1     1 i_soln     1     NA    NA    NA     7     4 -4.000000 -13.86320
#> 2     1 i_soln     2     NA    NA    NA     7     4 -3.698970 -13.26114
#> 3     1 i_soln     3     NA    NA    NA     7     4 -3.522879 -12.90896
#> # ... with 3 more variables: la_Hg.OH.2 <dbl>, la_HgOH. <dbl>,
#> #   la_Hg.OH.3. <dbl>

(Note that I called phreeqc() with quiet = FALSE to first find the species included in selected_output())

Multiple solutions

The input for phreeqc() can accept list() objects, so you can use something like plyr::mlply() to create a list of solutions like the one above to pass to phreeqc(). You could use expand.grid() to generate a large number of solutions in this way.

# create data.frame with arguments to solution()
solution_info <- data.frame(
  .number = 1:3,
  pH = 7,
  temp = 25,
  Hg = c(0.1, 0.2, 0.3)
)

# use mlply to turn this into a list()
solution_list <- plyr::mlply(solution_info, solution)

# pass to phreeqc()
phreeqc(
  solution_list,
  selected_output(activities = c("Hg", "Hg2+2", "Hg(OH)2", "Hg(OH)2",
                                 "HgOH+", "Hg(OH)3-")),
  db = "minteq"
)
#> # A tibble: 3 × 13
#>     sim  state  soln dist_x  time  step    pH    pe     la_Hg  la_Hg2.2
#> * <int>  <chr> <int>  <dbl> <dbl> <int> <dbl> <dbl>     <dbl>     <dbl>
#> 1     1 i_soln     1     NA    NA    NA     7     4 -4.000000 -13.86320
#> 2     1 i_soln     2     NA    NA    NA     7     4 -3.698970 -13.26114
#> 3     1 i_soln     3     NA    NA    NA     7     4 -3.522879 -12.90896
#> # ... with 3 more variables: la_Hg.OH.2 <dbl>, la_HgOH. <dbl>,
#> #   la_Hg.OH.3. <dbl>


paleolimbot/easyphreeqc documentation built on May 24, 2019, 6:12 p.m.