Dechlorination after thermal treatment of a TCE-contaminated aquifer: Laboratory experiments

Chemosphere

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 816-825

  Friis, A K ^a   Edwards, E A ^b   Albrechtsen, H J ^a   Udell, K S ^c   Duhamel, M ^b   Bjerg, P L ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlorinated ethenes; Dechlorination; Groundwater; Remediation; Thermal treatment

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOREMEDIATION; CONTAMINATION; DECHLORINATION; GROUNDWATER; HEAT TREATMENT;

CHLORINATED ETHENES; MICROCOSM STUDY; THERMAL BIOREMEDIATION; TRICHLOROETHENE (TCE);

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

1,2 DICHLOROETHYLENE; BACTERIAL RNA; ETHYLENE; GROUND WATER; LACTIC ACID; RNA 16S; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

BACTERIA; BIOREMEDIATION; CONTAMINATION; DECHLORINATION; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEAT TREATMENT;

AQUIFER; BACTERIUM; BIOREMEDIATION; DECHLORINATION; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HEATING; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; COOLING; DECHLORINATION; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; EXPERIMENT; HEATING; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LABORATORY; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MICROCOSM; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA GENE; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER FLOW;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DEHALOCOCCOIDES;

EID: 33846211431     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2006.10.012     Document Type: Article

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