A mass balance study of the phytoremediation of perchloroethylene-contaminated groundwater

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 157, Issue 8-9, 2009, Pages 2564-2569

  Andrew James, C ^a   Xin, Gang ^b   Doty, Sharon L ^c   Muiznieks, Indulis ^c   Newman, Lee ^d   Strand, Stuart E ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b Hydranautics   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mass balance; Perchloroethylene; Phytoremediation

Indexed keywords

CHLORINATED ETHENES; CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER; EFFLUENT WATERS; FIELD CONDITIONS; FREE CHLORIDES; HYBRID POPLAR; IN-FIELD; LOSS MECHANISMS; MASS BALANCE; PERCHLOROETHYLENE; PHYTOREMEDIATION; SOIL CHAMBER; TOTAL MASS;

BIOREMEDIATION; CHLORINE; EFFLUENTS; EQUIPMENT TESTING; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROGEOLOGY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; SOILS; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

WATER TREATMENT;

CHLORIDE; CHLORINE; ETHYLENE; GROUND WATER; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; VINYLIDENE CHLORIDE;

EFFLUENT; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MASS BALANCE; PHYTOREMEDIATION; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; CHLORINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHALOGENATION; EFFLUENT; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; NONHUMAN; PHYTOREMEDIATION; TREE; VOLATILIZATION; WATER CONTAMINATION;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CHLORIDES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROUNDWATER; POPULUS; SOIL; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

POPULUS;

EID: 68649127870     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2009.02.033     Document Type: Article

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