Effect of Tween surfactants on methanogenesis and microbial reductive dechlorination of hexachlorobenzene

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1408-1416

  Yeh, Daniel H ^a   Pennell, Kurt D ^a   Pavlostathis, Spyros G ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Hexachlorobenzene; Methanogenesis; Nonionic surfactants; Reductive dechlorination; Tween surfactants

Indexed keywords

HEXACHLOROBENZENE; POLYSORBATE 60;

DECHLORINATION; METHANOGENESIS; SURFACTANT;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; CHEMICAL REACTION; DECHLORINATION; ESTUARY; METHANOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 0032997897     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(1999)018<1408:EOTSOM>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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