Experimental evaluation and mathematical modeling of microbially enhanced tetrachloroethene (PCE) dissolution

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 963-970

  Amos, Benjamin K ^a   Christ, John A ^b   Abriola, Linda M ^c   Pennell, Kurt D ^a,d   Löffler, Frank E ^a,e  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY   (United States)

^c Tufts University   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOAVAILABILITY NUMBER (BN); DENSE NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUID (DNAPL);

BACTERIA; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DISSOLUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METABOLISM; REACTION KINETICS;

OLEFINS;

TETRACHLOROETHYLENE;

BACTERIA; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DISSOLUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METABOLISM; OLEFINS; REACTION KINETICS;

BIOAVAILABILITY; DECHLORINATION; DISSOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INHIBITION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUID; NUMERICAL MODEL; REACTION KINETICS; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TRANSFORMATION;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DECHLORINATION; DESULFITOBACTERIUM; DESULFUROMONAS; DESULFUROMONAS MICHIGANENSIS; DISSOLUTION; GEOBACTER; GEOBACTER LOVLEYI; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUID; NONHUMAN; POLLUTANT; REDUCTION; SULFUR BACTERIUM; SULFUROSPIRILLUM MULTIVORANS;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CHLORINE; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DESULFITOBACTERIUM; DESULFOVIBRIO DESULFURICANS; DICHLOROETHYLENES; GEOBACTER; KINETICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SOIL POLLUTANTS; STEREOISOMERISM; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DESULFITOBACTERIUM SP.; DESULFUROMONAS MICHIGANENSIS; GEOBACTER LOVLEYI; SULFUROSPIRILLUM MULTIVORANS;

EID: 33846809186     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es061438n     Document Type: Article

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