Quantifying the degradation and dilution contribution to natural attenuation of contaminants by means of an open system Rayleigh equation

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 4980-4985

  Van Breukelen, Boris M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; DILUTION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; ISOTOPES; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; REMEDIATION;

OPEN SYSTEM FIELD CONDITIONS; RAYLEIGH EQUATION;

DEGRADATION;

GROUND WATER; ORGANIC COMPOUND;

BENZENE; DEGRADATION; DILUTION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDRODYNAMICS; ISOTOPES; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; REMEDIATION;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; BTEX; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; EQUATION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MTBE; NATURAL ATTENUATION; PLUME;

ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; CALCULATION; COMPOUND SPECIFIC ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; DEGRADATION KINETICS; DILUTION; EVALUATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; ISOTOPE LABELING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; OPEN SYSTEM RAYLEIGH EQUATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAYLEIGH EQUATION; RELIABILITY; WATER POLLUTION;

BENZENE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 34547200502     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es062846u     Document Type: Article

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