The relative contributions of abiotic and microbial processes to the transformation of tetrachloroethylene and trichloroethylene in anaerobic microcosms

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 690-697

  Dong, Yiran ^a   Liang, Xiaoming ^a   Krumholz, Lee R ^b   Philp, R Paul ^b   Butler, Elizabeth C ^a  

^a University of Oklahoma   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABIOTIC TRANSFORMATIONS; AQUIFER MATERIALS; ELECTRON DONORS; FIELD CONDITIONS; GEOCHEMICAL CONDITIONS; HIGH CONCENTRATIONS; MASS LOADINGS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITIES; MICROBIAL PROCESS; MICROCOSM CONDITIONS; PRODUCT RECOVERIES; REACTION PRODUCTS; REACTIVE MINERALS; REDUCTIVE DECHLORINATION; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTIONS; RELATIVE IMPORTANCES; RELATIVE RATES; SOIL PROPERTIES; STABLE CARBON ISOTOPES; SULFATE REDUCTIONS; SULFATE-REDUCING CONDITIONS; TERMINAL ELECTRON ACCEPTORS; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TRANSFORMATION PATHWAYS;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ANESTHETICS; AQUIFERS; BACTERIOLOGY; MINERALS; REACTION KINETICS; SILICA; SULFATE MINERALS; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

DECHLORINATION;

IRON; SULFATE; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; CHLORINE;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; DECHLORINATION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROCOSM; REDUCTION; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TRANSFORMATION; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; DECHLORINATION; FRACTIONATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; KINETICS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROCOSM; NONHUMAN; PRODUCT RECOVERY; REACTION ANALYSIS; SOIL PROPERTY; ANAEROBIC GROWTH; METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; WATER POLLUTANT;

ANAEROBIOSIS; CHLORINE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 61649116389     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es801917p     Document Type: Article

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