Role of sulfur-reducing bacteria in a wetland system treating acid mine drainage

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 394, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 222-229

  Guy Riefler, R ^a   Krohn, Jeremy ^b   Stuart, Ben ^a   Socotch, Cheryl ^c  

^a Ohio University   (United States)

^b Parametrix   (United States)

^c OHIO DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DRAINAGE; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SULFUR; WETLANDS;

ALUMINUM PRECIPITATES; ANAEROBIC BIOFILMS;

BACTERIA;

ALUMINUM; CALCIUM CARBONATE; FERROUS SULFIDE; IRON; LIMESTONE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; SULFATE; SULFUR;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ALKALINITY; ALUMINUM; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CONSTRUCTED WETLAND; LIMESTONE; SLUDGE; SULFATE-REDUCING BACTERIUM; SULFUR; WETLAND;

ACID MINE DRAINAGE; ACIDITY; ALKALINITY; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DISSOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCTION KINETICS; SLUDGE; UNITED STATES; WETLAND;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; METALS; MINING; OHIO; SULFUR; SULFUR-REDUCING BACTERIA; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WETLANDS;

COSHOCTON COUNTY; NORTH AMERICA; OHIO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 40949105936     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.01.024     Document Type: Article

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