Feasibility of bioremediation of a ground water polluted with alkylpyridines

Ground Water

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 194-199

  Ronen, Zeev ^b   Bollag, Jean Marc ^c   Hsu, Cheng Hsiung ^c   Young, James C ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION; BIOLOGICAL WATER TREATMENT; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CHEMICAL REACTORS; CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); ORGANIC ACIDS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OXYGEN; SEDIMENTS;

AEROBIC BACTERIA; ALKYLPYRIDINES; BIOREMEDIATION; SUBSURFACE SEDIMENT; TWO STAGE FIXED FILM REACTOR;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

EID: 0030107284     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.1996.tb01879.x     Document Type: Article

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