Microbial community characterization in a pilot-scale permeable reactive iron barrier

Environmental Engineering Science

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 287-292

  Van Nooten, Thomas ^a   Springael, Dirk ^b   Bastiaens, Leen ^a  

^a FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Fe0 PRB; Microbial community; PCR DGGE; Permeable reactive barrier; Zerovalent iron

Indexed keywords

16S RDNA; AMPLIFICATION PRODUCTS; AQUIFER MATERIALS; ARCHAEA; BARRIER PERFORMANCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; CORE SAMPLING; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DENITRIFYING BACTERIA; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; EUBACTERIA; FIRMICUTES; FUNCTION OF TIME; GENE SEQUENCING; IN-SITU; MESOCOSM SYSTEMS; MESOCOSMS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; MONITORING WELLS; PCR-DGGE; PERMEABLE REACTIVE BARRIERS; PILOT SCALE; REDOX POTENTIALS; SEQUENCE SIMILARITY; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIA; TETRACHLOROETHYLENES; ZERO-VALENT IRON;

AMPLIFICATION; AQUIFERS; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; CLONING; DENITRIFICATION; ELECTROPHORESIS; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; IRON COMPOUNDS; LOCATION; PH EFFECTS; POLYMERIZATION; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; WATER TREATMENT; WELLS;

POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

GROUND WATER; RIBOSOME DNA; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

AQUIFER; ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DENITRIFYING BACTERIUM; ENRICHMENT CULTURE; FIRMICUTES; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MESOCOSM; METHANOGEN; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PERMEABLE REACTIVE IRON BARRIER; PH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER TREATMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FIRMICUTES;

EID: 77949785260     PISSN: 10928758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ees.2009.0271     Document Type: Article

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