Mass removal and low-concentration tailing of trichloroethene in freshly-amended, synthetically-aged, and field-contaminated aquifer material

Chemosphere

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 542-548

  Johnson, G R ^a   Norris, D K ^a,b   Brusseau, M L ^b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contaminant aging; Kerogen; Low organic carbon; Trichloroethene

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER MATERIALS; CARBON CONTENTS; CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS; CONTACT TIME; CONTAMINANT AGING; CONTAMINATED AQUIFERS; ELUTION BEHAVIORS; FLOW EXPERIMENTS; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; LOW ORGANIC CARBON; MASS BALANCES; MASS REMOVALS; NONIDEAL TRANSPORTS; NONLINEAR SORPTIONS; PHASE CONCENTRATIONS; RETENTION BEHAVIORS; TOTAL MASS; TRICHLOROETHENE;

AQUIFERS; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CONTAMINATION; FIRE HAZARDS; KEROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; SOLVENT EXTRACTION; SORPTION; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

ORGANIC CARBON; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EXTRACTION METHOD; KEROGEN; ORGANIC CARBON; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SORPTION; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

AGING; AQUIFER; ARTICLE; DESORPTION; ELUTION; POLLUTANT; POLLUTION TRANSPORT; SOLVENT EXTRACTION;

ADSORPTION; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; SOIL POLLUTANTS; TIME FACTORS; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

EID: 63449141551     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2008.12.004     Document Type: Article

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