Beyond the rayleigh equation: Reactive transport modeling of isotope fractionation effects to improve quantification of biodegradation

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2457-2463

  Van Breukelen, Boris M ^a   Prommer, Henning ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODEGRADATION; CARBON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTIONATION; NUMERICAL METHODS;

CARBON ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION; RAYLEIGH EQUATION;

ISOTOPES;

CARBON; ISOTOPE;

BIODEGRADATION; CARBON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPES; NUMERICAL METHODS;

BIODEGRADATION; DATA INTERPRETATION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; REACTION KINETICS; REACTIVE TRANSPORT;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; CHEMICAL REACTION; DEGRADATION KINETICS; FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PLUME; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION;

ISOTOPES; KINETICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 41649120610     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es071981j     Document Type: Article

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