Continuous-flow column study of reductive dehalogenation of PCE upon bioaugmentation with the Evanite enrichment culture

Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

Volumn 100, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 11-21

  Azizian, Mohammad F ^a   Behrens, Sebastian ^b   Sabalowsky, Andrew ^a   Dolan, Mark E ^a   Spormann, Alfred M ^b   Semprini, Lewis ^a  

^a Oregon State University   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Anaerobic continuous flow column; Bioaugmentation Evanite culture; Chlorinated ethenes; Dehalococcoides; Hanford aquifer material

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DECHLORINATION; DEHALOGENATION; DESORPTION; ETHYLENE; POPULATION STATISTICS; RATE CONSTANTS; REACTION KINETICS; SUGAR (SUCROSE); TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER POLLUTION;

ANAEROBIC (UASB); BACTERIAL POPULATIONS; BIO-AUGMENTATION; BREAK-THROUGH CURVES; CELL NUMBERS; COLUMN EFFLUENT; COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; COLUMN INLET; COLUMN STUDIES; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONTINUOUS FLOW (CF); DEHALOCOCCOIDES; ELECTRON DONORS; ENRICHMENT CULTURES; ETHENE (ETH); HANFORD; HYDRAULIC RESIDENCE TIME (HRT); INOCULA; LACTATE (LAC); NON EQUILIBRIUM TRANSPORT; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; PCE TRANSFORMATION; REDUCTIVE DECHLORINATION; REDUCTIVE DEHALOGENATION; TETRACHLOROETHENE (PCE); VINYL CHLORIDE (PVC U);

COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL);

ACETIC ACID; ETHYLENE; LACTIC ACID; PROPIONIC ACID; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; VINYL CHLORIDE;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; AQUIFER; BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DECHLORINATION; ENRICHMENT; HALOGEN; HYDRAULICS; REDUCTION; RESIDENCE TIME; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; CHLOROFLEXI; DECHLORINATION; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; DEHALOGENATION; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; FERMENTATION; MICROCOSM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANAEROBIOSIS; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CHLOROFLEXI; DNA, BACTERIAL; ETHYLENES; RESEARCH DESIGN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; VINYL CHLORIDE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DEHALOCOCCOIDES;

EID: 48449085745     PISSN: 01697722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2008.04.006     Document Type: Article

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