Application of monitored natural attenuation to remediate a petroleum-hydrocarbon spill site

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 321-328

  Kao, C M ^a   Huang, W Y ^a   Chang, L J ^a   Chen, T Y ^a   Chien, H Y ^a   Hou, F ^b  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

BTEX; Groundwater; Methanogenesis; MNA; Natural attenuation; Petroleum hydrocarbon

Indexed keywords

BIOREMEDIATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HYDROCARBONS; OIL SPILLS;

BTEX; METHANOGENESIS; NATURAL ATTENUATION; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBON;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

1,2,4 TRIMETHYLBENZENE; BENZENE; CARBON DIOXIDE; ETHYLBENZENE; FERROUS ION; GROUND WATER; NITRATE; OXYGEN; PETROLEUM DERIVATIVE; SULFATE; SULFIDE; TOLUENE; XYLENE;

BIOREMEDIATION; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROCARBONS; OIL SPILLS;

BIOREMEDIATION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; PETROLEUM; REMEDIATION;

BIODEGRADATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; METHANOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; OIL SPILL; PLUME DISPERSION; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SAMPLING;

BENZENE DERIVATIVES; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; HYDROCARBONS; PETROLEUM; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TAIWAN; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; XYLENES;

EID: 33645276829     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2006.066     Document Type: Conference Paper

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