Potential and limitations of microbial reductive dechlorination for bioremediation applications

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution: Focus

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 117-129

  Pavlostathis, Spyros G ^a   Prytula, Mark T ^a   Yeh, Daniel H ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioavailability; Bioremediation; Chlorinated benzenes; Nonionic surfactants; Polychlorinated organic contaminants; Reductive dechlorination; Sediments

Indexed keywords

BIOREMEDIATION; DECHLORINATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; SOIL POLLUTION;

EID: 4344699321     PISSN: 15677230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1023913330677     Document Type: Article

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