Compost-based permeable reactive barriers for the source treatment of arsenic contaminations in aquifers: Column studies and solid-phase investigations

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 7650-7655

  Köber, Ralf ^a   Daus, Birgit ^b   Ebert, Markus ^a   Mattusch, Jürgen ^b   Welter, Edmund ^c   Dahmke, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^c DESY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; COMPOSTING; CONTAMINATION; DISTILLATION COLUMNS; GROUNDWATER; IRON OXIDES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

DISSOLVED SULFIDE; PERCOLATION; PERMEABLE REACTIVE BARRIERS (PRB);

ARSENIC;

ARSENIC; ARSENIC ACID; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; FERRIC HYDROXIDE; FERROUS SULFIDE; GROUND WATER; ORGANIC MATTER; SULFIDE; SULFUR; FERRIC ION; FRESH WATER;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; ARSENIC; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; REACTIVE BARRIER; REMEDIATION;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; COMPOST; INDUSTRIAL AREA; NONHUMAN; PERMEABILITY; PERMEABLE REACTIVE BARRIER; REDUCTION; SEDIMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER TREATMENT; X RAY ABSORPTION NEAR EDGE STRUCTURE; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; METHODOLOGY; POLLUTANT; POLLUTION; SOIL; SPECTROSCOPY; WATER FLOW;

ADSORPTION; ARSENIC; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; FRESH WATER; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; SOIL; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SULFIDES; WATER MOVEMENTS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 26044440573     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es0503579     Document Type: Article

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