Approach for estimating microbial growth and the biodegradation of hydrocarbon contaminants in subsoil based on field measurements: 1. Model development and verification

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 767-773

  Song, Dejun ^a,b   Katayama, Arata ^b  

^a KISO JIBAN CONSULTANTS CO LTD   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATED SITES; CONTAMINATION PLUME; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; FIELD MEASUREMENT; IN-SITU; INERT COMPONENTS; KINETIC MODELS; MICROBIAL BIOMASS; MICROBIAL GROUPS; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MODEL DEVELOPMENT; NATURAL ATTENUATION; RESPIRATORY QUINONE; SUBSURFACE SOIL;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOMASS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; CONTAMINATION; DEGRADATION; DISSOLUTION; ECOLOGY; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; GROWTH KINETICS; HYDROCARBONS; MICROBIOLOGY; SOILS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

HYDROCARBON; QUINONE DERIVATIVE;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; BIODEGRADATION; BIOMASS; CONTAMINATED LAND; GROWTH RATE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; REACTION KINETICS; SOIL POLLUTION; SUBSOIL;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOMASS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL REACTION KINETICS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MICROBIAL GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PLUME; SOIL POLLUTANT; SOIL POLLUTION;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; HYDROCARBONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 74949083183     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es9017199     Document Type: Article

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