Effects of physical and geochemical heterogeneities on mineral transformation and biomass accumulation during biostimulation experiments at Rifle, Colorado

Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

Volumn 112, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 45-63

  Li, Li ^a   Steefel, Carl I ^a   Kowalsky, Michael B ^a   Englert, Andreas ^a   Hubbard, Susan S ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogeochemical process; Biomass accumulation; Heterogeneity; Mineral transformation; Reactive transport modeling; Uranium bioremediation

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; BIOMASS ACCUMULATION; MINERAL TRANSFORMATION; MINERAL TRANSFORMATIONS; REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODELING;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOREMEDIATION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS; GROUNDWATER; GUNS (ARMAMENT); HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROGEOLOGY; IRON COMPOUNDS; MINERALS; POLLUTION; POROUS MATERIALS; PRECIPITATES; REACTION PRODUCTS; SILICATE MINERALS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STRATEGIC PLANNING; TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS; URANIUM; WELLS;

BIOMASS;

GROUND WATER; HYDROXYLAMINE; IRON; MINERAL; SULFATE; URANIUM;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOREMEDIATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; HETEROGENEITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; POROUS MEDIUM; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; URANIUM;

ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOMASS DISTRIBUTION; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; BIOREMEDIATION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; COMPETITIVE INHIBITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; FIELD EXPERIMENT; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MINERAL METABOLISM; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; REDUCTION KINETICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STOICHIOMETRY; TRANSPORT KINETICS; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS;

BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BIOMASS; COLORADO; IRON; MODELS, CHEMICAL; URANIUM; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, RADIOACTIVE;

COLORADO; RIFLE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 76049108313     PISSN: 01697722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2009.10.006     Document Type: Article

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