Anaerobic bioremediation of a soil with mixed contaminants: Explosives degradation and influence on heavy metal distribution, monitored as changes in concentration and toxicity

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 202, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 301-313

  Elgh Dalgren, Kristin ^a   Waara, Sylvia ^b   Düker, Anders ^a   Von Kronhelm, Thomas ^c   Van Hees, Patrick A W ^a  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b MÄLARDALEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c SAKAB AB ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bioremediation; Explosives; Microtox ; Mixed contaminants; Pb

Indexed keywords

ACUTE TOXICITY; ANAEROBIC BIOREMEDIATION; ANAEROBIC CONDITIONS; BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT; BIOLUMINESCENT BACTERIA; CO-CONTAMINANT; CONTAMINATED SOILS; DEGRADATION EFFICIENCY; ECOTOXICITY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITIES; MIXED CONTAMINANTS; PB; REMOVAL RATE; SOIL TOXICITY; TIME PERIODS; VIBRIO FISCHERI; ZEROVALENT IRONS;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; COMPOSTING; CONTAMINATION; DEGRADATION; EXPLOSIVES; IMPURITIES; LEAD; LEAD ALLOYS; MANURES; METAL RECOVERY; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS; TOXICITY;

SOIL POLLUTION CONTROL;

EXPLOSIVE; HEAVY METAL; LEAD;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIOREMEDIATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ECOTOXICOLOGY; EXPLOSIVE; HEAVY METAL; MANURE; SOIL POLLUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ANAEROBIC CAPACITY; ARTICLE; BIOLUMINESCENCE; BIOREMEDIATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DEGRADATION KINETICS; ECOTOXICITY; HEAVY METAL REMOVAL; HORSE; MANURE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; SOIL POLLUTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EQUIDAE; VIBRIO FISCHERI;

EID: 69049092648     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-009-9977-z     Document Type: Article

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