Potential soil reinforcement by biological denitrification

Ecological Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 168-175

  van Paassen, Leon A ^a   Daza, Claudia M ^a   Staal, Marc ^a   Sorokin, Dimitri Y ^a,c   van der Zon, Willem ^b   van Loosdrecht, Mark C M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DELTARES   (Netherlands)

^c RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Biogrout; Calcium carbonate; Denitrification; Microbially induced carbonate precipitation (MICP); Soil reinforcement

Indexed keywords

AGAR PLATES; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BATCH CULTURE; BIOGROUT; BIOLOGICAL DENITRIFICATION; CALCIUM CARBONATE CRYSTALS; CALCIUM NITRATE; CALCIUM SALTS; CARBON SOURCE; CARBONATE PRECIPITATION; ELECTRON DONORS; EVALUATION FACTOR; GROUND REINFORCEMENT; MICROBIAL DENITRIFICATION; MICROBIAL PROCESS; NITROGEN GAS; SAND COLUMNS; SAND GRAINS; SOIL REINFORCEMENT; UREA HYDROLYSIS;

BATCH CELL CULTURE; CALCIUM; CALCIUM ALLOYS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONATION; DENITRIFICATION; DISSOLUTION; EXPERIMENTS; FATTY ACIDS; HYDROLYSIS; METABOLISM; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); REACTION RATES; REINFORCEMENT; SALTS; SOILS; UREA;

CALCIUM CARBONATE;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBON DIOXIDE; DENITRIFICATION; FATTY ACID; HYDROLYSIS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SOIL REINFORCEMENT; SUBSTRATE; UREA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 74149091656     PISSN: 09258574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoleng.2009.03.026     Document Type: Article

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