Experimental evidence for a lack of thermodynamic control on hydrogen concentrations during anaerobic degradation of chlorinated ethenes

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 3501-3507

  Heimann, Axel C ^a   Jakobsen, Rasmus ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC DEGRADATION; CHLORINATED ETHENES; THERMODYNAMIC CONTROL;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DECHLORINATION; DEGRADATION; GIBBS FREE ENERGY; HYDROGEN; IONIC STRENGTH; MICROBIOLOGY; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

OLEFINS;

CHLORINE DERIVATIVE; DICHLOROETHENE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; HYDROGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VINYL CHLORIDE;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DECHLORINATION; DEGRADATION; GIBBS FREE ENERGY; HYDROGEN; IONIC STRENGTH; MICROBIOLOGY; OLEFINS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

DECHLORINATION; DEGRADATION; ETHYLENE; HYDROGEN; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTY;

ANAEROBIC CAPACITY; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CHLORINATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DECHLORINATION; DEGRADATION; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; ENERGY; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; SOIL MICROFLORA; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; ANAEROBIOSIS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; DICHLOROETHYLENES; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; HYDROGEN; MINERALS; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; VINYL CHLORIDE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY;

DEHALOCOCCOIDES;

EID: 33744811137     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es052320u     Document Type: Article

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