Reduction of polychlorinated ethanes and carbon tetrachloride by structural Fe(II) in smectites

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 4082-4089

  Neumann, Anke ^a   Hofstetter, Thomas B ^a   Skarpeli Liati, Marita ^a   Schwarzenbach, René P ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR CHARACTERISTIC; BIPHASIC; CHLOROALKANES; CHLOROETHANES; CL ATOMS; DEHYDROCHLORINATION REACTION; FE SPECIES; FERROUS IRON; HOMOGENEOUS SOLUTIONS; ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION; MINERAL SURFACES; OCTAHEDRAL SHEETS; ORGANIC CONTAMINANT; PH RANGE; POLYCHLORINATED ALKANES; PRODUCT DISTRIBUTIONS; REDUCTANT; REDUCTION KINETICS; REDUCTION REACTION; REDUCTIVE TRANSFORMATIONS; SMECTITE; SMECTITES; TETRACHLOROETHANE;

ATOMS; BATCH REACTORS; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CLAY MINERALS; DISSOLUTION; GROUNDWATER; HYDROCHLORIC ACID; HYDROGEOLOGY; IRON; MINING; ORGANIC MINERALS; PARAFFINS; RATE CONSTANTS; REACTION KINETICS; SILICATE MINERALS;

MINERALS;

1,1,1,2 TETRACHLOROETHANE; ALKANE DERIVATIVE; CARBON; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CHLORIDE; CHLOROFORM; ETHANE; ETHYLENE; FERROUS ION; GROUND WATER; SILICON DIOXIDE; TETRACHLOROETHANE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CARBON; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHLORIDE; CHLORINATION; CLAY MINERAL; ETHANE; HYDROXIDE; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; REDUCTION; SMECTITE; TRANSFORMATION;

ANOXIA; ARTICLE; BATCH REACTOR; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CLAY; ELIMINATION REACTION; FRACTIONATION; ORGANIC POLLUTION; PH; POLLUTANT; REACTION ANALYSIS; REDUCTION;

CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; IRON; KINETICS; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SILICATES;

EID: 66249097057     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es9001967     Document Type: Article

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