Stimulation of microbial urea hydrolysis in groundwater to enhance calcite precipitation

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 3025-3032

  Fujita, Yoshiko ^a   Taylor, Joanna L ^a,b,c   Gresham, Tina L T ^a,b,d   Delwiche, Mark E ^a   Colwell, Frederick S ^a,e   Mcling, Travis L ^a   Petzke, Lynn M ^a,b   Smith, Robert W ^c  

^a IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^d UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^e OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATES; GROWTH KINETICS; HYDROLYSIS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

RADIONUCLIDE CONTAMINANTS; UREOLYSIS;

MICROORGANISMS;

BACTERIAL DNA; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBONIC ACID; GROUND WATER; MOLASSES; UREA;

CARBONATES; GROWTH KINETICS; HYDROLYSIS; MICROORGANISMS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

AQUIFER POLLUTION; CALCITE; HYDROLYSIS; IMMOBILIZATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MOLASSE; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); RADIONUCLIDE; REMEDIATION; TRACE METAL; UREA;

ALKALINITY; AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOREMEDIATION; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE NUMBER; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PERMEABILITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRECIPITATION; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REACTION ANALYSIS; RIVER; UNITED STATES; UREC GENE; UREOLYSIS; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTANT; WATER SAMPLING;

BACTERIA; CALCIUM CARBONATE; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HYDROLYSIS; MOLASSES; PRECIPITATION; UREA; UREASE; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

IDAHO; NORTH AMERICA; SNAKE RIVER PLAIN; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 42149157168     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es702643g     Document Type: Article

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