A kinetic approach for simulating redox-controlled fringe and core biodegradation processes in groundwater: Model development and application to a landfill site in Piedmont, Italy

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 22, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 4905-4921

  Rolle, Massimo ^a,c   Clement, T Prabhakar ^b   Sethi, Rajandrea ^a   Di Molfetta, Antonio ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Landfill; Leachate; Reaction rates; Reactive transport modelling; Redox zonation; TEAPs

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC DEGRADATION; BIODEGRADATION PROCESS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; BIOLOGICAL DEGRADATION; COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH; FULLY INTEGRATED; GROUNDWATER SYSTEM; HIGH ORGANIC; IRON REDUCTION; KINETIC APPROACH; LANDFILL LEACHATE; LANDFILL SITE; LEACHATE; METHANOGENESIS; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; MODEL EQUATIONS; MODFLOW; MULTI-SPECIES; NUMERICAL MODELS; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; REACTIVE TRANSPORT CODES; REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODELLING; REACTIVE TRANSPORT PROBLEMS; REDOX ZONATION; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; SULFATE REDUCTION; TEAPS; TERMINAL ELECTRON ACCEPTOR PROCESS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODEL; UNCONFINED AQUIFERS;

AQUIFERS; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIODEGRADATION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DEGRADATION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; LEACHATE TREATMENT; LEACHING; MANGANESE; MICROBIOLOGY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; REACTION RATES; REDOX REACTIONS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

REFUSE DISPOSAL;

BIODEGRADATION; GROUNDWATER; LANDFILL; LEACHATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANIC COMPOUND; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRANSPORT PROCESS; UNCONFINED AQUIFER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; PIEDMONT [ITALY]; SOUTHERN EUROPE; TORINO [PIEDMONT]; TURIN;

EID: 67650311816     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7113     Document Type: Article

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