Use of peat moss amended with soybean oil for mitigation of dissolved explosive compounds leaching into the subsurface: Insight into mass transfer mechanisms

Environmental Engineering Science

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 337-349

  Schaefer, Charles E ^a   Fuller, Mark E ^a   Lowey, Jean M ^a   Steffan, Robert J ^a  

^a Shaw Environmental Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Biotransformation; Diffusion; Explosives; HMX; Mass transfer; Peat; RDX; TNT

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DIFFUSION; IMPURITIES; MASS TRANSFER; PERSONNEL TRAINING; RATE CONSTANTS;

BIOTRANSFORMATION; PEAT MOSS; SORBENTS; SOYBEAN OILS;

VEGETABLE OILS;

CYCLONITE; EXPLOSIVE; NITRO DERIVATIVE; OCTAHYDRO 1,3,5,7 TETRANITRO 1,3,5,7 TETRAZOCINE; SORBENT; SOYBEAN OIL; TRINITROTOLUENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; DIFFUSION; KINETICS; LEACHING; MODEL; SOYBEAN; SPHAGNUM; VISCOSITY;

BRYOPHYTA; GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 17444421581     PISSN: 10928758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ees.2005.22.337     Document Type: Article

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