Critique of a steady-state analytical method for estimating contaminant degradation rates

Ground Water

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 983-987

  McNab Jr , Walt W ^a   Dooher, Brendan P ^a  

^a Biology and Biotechnology Research   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; DEGRADATION KINETICS; KINETIC MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STEADY STATE; TRANSPORT KINETICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTAMINATION; DEGRADATION; IMPURITIES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THERMAL PLUMES; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; WATER WELLS;

CONTAMINANT DEGRADATION RATES;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

DEGRADATION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; PERSISTENCE;

EID: 3643075021     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.1998.tb02105.x     Document Type: Article

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