Arsenite and ferrous iron oxidation linked to chemolithotrophic denitrification for the immobilization of arsenic in anoxic environments

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 6585-6591

  Sun, Wenjie ^a   Sierra Alvarez, Reyes ^a   Milner, Lily ^a   Oremland, Ron ^b   Field, Jim A ^a  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC ENVIRONMENT; ANAEROBIC GROUNDWATER; ANOXIC ENVIRONMENT; AQUEOUS PHASE; ARSENIC CONCENTRATION; COATED SAND; COLUMN OPERATIONS; CONTINUOUS FLOWS; FERROUS IRON; FERROUS IRON OXIDATION; MICROBIAL OXIDATION;

ARSENIC; BIOREMEDIATION; DENITRIFICATION; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; IRON; IRON COMPOUNDS; OXIDATION; SEDIMENTS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

ARSENIC ACID; ARSENIC TRIOXIDE; FERRIC HYDROXIDE; FERROUS ION; GROUND WATER; NITRATE;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; ARSENIC; ARSENITE; DENITRIFICATION; EXTRACTION METHOD; GROUNDWATER; IMMOBILIZATION; IRON; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; OXIDATION; SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); X-RAY DIFFRACTION; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

ADSORPTION; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; CHEMOLITHOTROPH; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENT; EXTRACTION; IMMOBILIZATION; OXIDATION; SAND; SEDIMENT; SIMULATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY;

ANAEROBIOSIS; ARSENATES; ARSENITES; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CHEMOAUTOTROPHIC GROWTH; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; FERROUS COMPOUNDS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITRATES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 69549115112     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es900978h     Document Type: Article

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