The hydrodispersive characterization of a Latosol and a Quartzarenic Neosol, both in the irrigated region of São Francisco Valley, was carried out in laboratory by means of assays of displacement of miscible liquids in columns of deformed soil. The assays consisted of the displacement of a pulse of 1.0 volume of pores of the solution of KBr in the outflows of 2.4.10-5, 4.8.10-5, 7.2.10-5, 9.6.10-5 and 1.2.10-4 m³ h-1 and in concentrations of 11.89, 59.49 and 118.99 g L-1, and three repetitions for each assay, under conditions of saturation and flow in stationary condition. By means of program CXTFIT 2.0 that adjusts the analytical solution of the equation of the convection-dispersion (CDE) to the points of the experimental breakthrough curve, it was possible to obtain the hydrodispersive parameters of the retardation factor (R) and coefficient of hydrodynamic dispersion (D). The model CDE carried out a good adjustment to the points of the experimental breakthrough curve, with the values of determination coefficients varying from 98 to 99% for both soils. The values of R are near 1.0 for both the soils, indicating that the KBr does not interact with the soil and the dispersivity of the Neosol is greater than that of the Latosol due to distribution of the size of the pores being greater in the Neosol.
hydrodispersives parameters; breakthrough curve; model CDE
