Quantification of sequential chlorinated ethene degradation by use of a reactive transport model incorporating isotope fractionation

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 4189-4197

  Van Breukelen, Boris M ^a   Hunkeler, Daniel ^b   Volkering, Frank ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^c Tauw Environment Ltd   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECHLORINATION; DEGRADATION; FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OXIDATION; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

CHLORINATED ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBONS (CAH); KINETIC ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION; RAYLEIGH EQUATIONS; SEQUENTIAL DEGRADATION;

ETHYLENE;

ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBON; CARBON; ETHYLENE;

BIODEGRADATION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; REACTIVE TRANSPORT;

ARTICLE; CHLORINATION; COMPOUND SPECIFIC ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; DECHLORINATION; DEGRADATION KINETICS; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; ISOTOPE LABELING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION KINETICS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; RAYLEIGH EQUATION; REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODEL; SIMULATION; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CHLORINE; ETHYLENES; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; ISOTOPES; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 20044385944     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es048973c     Document Type: Article

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