Inorganic contaminant fate assessment in zero-valent iron treatment walls

Environmental Forensics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 207-217

  Komnitsas, Kostas ^a   Bartzas, Georgios ^b   Paspaliaris, Ioannis ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Hydraulic performance; PHREEQC 2; Tracer tests; Zero valent iron walls

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747651140     PISSN: 15275922     EISSN: 15275930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15275920600840479     Document Type: Article

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