Degradation of aromatic and chlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbons in the anaerobic part of the Grindsted Landfill leachate plume: In situ microcosm and laboratory batch experiments

Ground Water

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 113-121

  Bjerg, Poul L ^a   Rügge, Kirsten ^a   Cortsen, Jesper ^a   Nielsen, Per H ^a   Christensen, Thomas H ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; BENZENE; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; DEGRADATION; DENMARK; ETHYLBENZENE; LANDFILL; METHANOGENESIS; MICROCOSM; NAPHTHALENE; SULFATE REDUCTION; TOLUENE; XYLENE;

DEGRADATION; HYDROCARBONS; LEACHATE TREATMENT; REDOX REACTIONS;

CHLORINATED ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBONS; LANDFILL LEACHATE PLUMES; METHANOGENESIS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

DEGRADATION; HYDROCARBON; LANDFILL; LEACHATE; PLUME;

DENMARK;

EID: 0344628891     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.1999.tb00964.x     Document Type: Article

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