Biological perchlorate reduction in packed bed reactors using elemental sulfur

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 4466-4471

  Sahu, Ashish K ^a   Conneely, Teresa ^b   Nüsslein, Klaus R ^b   Ergas, Sarina J ^c  

^a PO Box 6875 Rodelokka   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER; EFFLUENT RECIRCULATION; ELECTRON DONORS; ELEMENTAL SULFUR; EMPTY BED CONTACT TIME; KEY FACTORS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; OYSTER SHELL; PACKED BED REACTOR; PROTEOBACTERIA; REACTOR PERFORMANCE; SULFUR OXIDIZING BACTERIA;

BACTERIOLOGY; BIOFILMS; EFFLUENTS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROGEOLOGY; PACKED BEDS; WASTEWATER;

SULFUR;

GROUND WATER; NITRATE; PERCHLORATE; SULFUR;

BACTERIUM; BIOFILM; BIOREACTOR; BIVALVE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DENITRIFICATION; ELECTRON; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; INHIBITION; INOCULATION; MASS TRANSFER; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NITRATE; PERCHLORATE; REDUCTION; SHELL; SULFUR;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BIOFILM; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFLUENT; ELECTRON; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; OYSTER; PARTICLE SIZE; PERFORMANCE; PROTEOBACTERIA; WASTE WATER; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER QUALITY;

BACTERIA; BIOREACTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; MEDICAL WASTE DISPOSAL; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PERCHLORIC ACID; SULFUR;

BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; OSTREIDAE; PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 67449158793     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es900563f     Document Type: Article

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