Quantifying in situ transformation rates of chlorinated ethenes by combining compound-specific stable isotope analysis, groundwater dating, and carbon isotope mass balances

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3705-3711

  Aeppli, Christoph ^a,b,c,d   Hofstetter, Thomas B ^a,b   Amaral, Helena I F ^a,b,c,d   Kipfer, Rolf ^a   Schwarzenbach, René P ^b   Berg, Michael ^a,b,c,d  

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

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d HIFA: National Laboratory of Energy and Geology (LNEG)   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPES; CARBON STABLE ISOTOPES; CHLORINATED ETHENES; CHLOROETHENES; CONTAMINATED AQUIFER; DICHLOROETHENES; GROUNDWATER DATING; GROUNDWATER RESIDENCE; HALF LIVES; IN-SITU; ISOTOPIC ENRICHMENT; MULTI-STEP; REDUCTIVE TRANSFORMATIONS; RESTRICTED ZONE; STABLE-ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; TETRACHLOROETHENE; TRANSFORMATION BASED; TRICHLOROETHENES; VINYL CHLORIDES;

AQUIFERS; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; ISOTOPES; REACTION KINETICS; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

DECHLORINATION;

CARBON; GROUND WATER; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; VINYL CHLORIDE;

CARBON ISOTOPE; DECHLORINATION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MASS BALANCE; STABLE ISOTOPE; TRACER; TRANSFORMATION; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DECHLORINATION; GLACIAL MASS BALANCE; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION;

CARBON ISOTOPES; ETHYLENES; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; KINETICS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 77952517903     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es903895b     Document Type: Article

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