Influence of mass-transfer limitations on carbon isotope fractionation during microbial dechlorination of trichloroethene

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 8813-8820

  Aeppli, Christoph ^a,d   Berg, Michael ^a   Cirpka, Olaf A ^a,e   Holliger, Christof ^b   Schwarzenbach, René P ^c   Hofstetter, Thomas B ^c  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS PHASE; CARBON ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION; CHLOROETHENES; COMPOUND-SPECIFIC ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DICHLOROETHENES; ENRICHMENT FACTORS; GAS-WATER MASS TRANSFER; GASEOUS PHASIS; IN-FIELD; INTER-PHASE MASS TRANSFER; ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION; KINETIC ISOTOPE EFFECTS; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MODEL SYSTEM; NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUIDS; ORGANIC CONTAMINANT; PHASE-TRANSFER EFFECT; RAYLEIGH EQUATION; REDUCTIVE DECHLORINATION; SENSITIVE PARAMETER; TETRADECANE; TRICHLOROETHENES;

BIODEGRADATION; GROWTH KINETICS; IMPURITIES; ISOTOPES; MASS TRANSFER; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTICAL SWITCHES; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

DECHLORINATION;

CARBON; CHLOROETHANE; TETRADECANE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; WATER;

BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; CARBON ISOTOPE; DECHLORINATION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; MASS TRANSFER; RAYLEIGH NUMBER; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; DECHLORINATION; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; FRACTIONATION; GAS; HYDROGENOLYSIS; INTERPHASE; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; MASKING; MICROBIAL GROWTH; NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUID; NONHUMAN; SULFUROSPIRILLUM;

ALKANES; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; DICHLOROETHYLENES; EPSILONPROTEOBACTERIA; HALOGENATION; KINETICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOLUTIONS; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; WATER;

SULFUROSPIRILLUM;

EID: 72249116306     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es901481b     Document Type: Article

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