Field evaluation of biological enhanced reductive dechlorination of chloroethenes in clayey till

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 5134-5141

  Scheutz, Charlotte ^a   Broholm, Mette M ^a   Durant, Neal D ^b   Weeth, Eline Begtrup ^a,e   Jørgensen, Torben H ^e,f   Dennis, Philip ^d   Jacobsen, Carsten S ^c   Cox, Evan E ^b   Chambon, Julie C ^a   Bjerg, Poul L ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b GEOSYNTEC CONSULTANTS   (United States)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^d SiREM   (Canada)

^e COWI A/S ^*  (Denmark)

^f Rambøll ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOACTIVE ZONES; CHLOROETHENES; CLAY CORES; CLAY MATRIX; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; DICHLOROETHENES; DIFFUSION PROFILES; ELECTRON DONORS; FERMENTATION PRODUCTS; FIELD EVALUATION; FILLED FRACTURE; FURTHER DEVELOPMENT; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; IN-SITU REMEDIATION; LOW PERMEABILITY; MATRIX; PILOT TESTS; REDUCTIVE DECHLORINATION; SOYBEAN OIL; VINYL CHLORIDES;

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CLAY PRODUCTS; EMULSIFICATION; ETHYLENE; FERMENTATION; FRACTURE; GROUNDWATER; HYDRAULIC FRACTURING; LEAKAGE (FLUID); POLLUTION; REACTION KINETICS;

DECHLORINATION;

1,2 DICHLOROETHYLENE; GROUND WATER; SOYBEAN OIL; VINYL CHLORIDE;

BACTERIUM; BIOACTIVITY; CLAY; DECHLORINATION; DIFFUSION; ETHYLENE; FERMENTATION; FIELD SURVEY; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; MASS TRANSFER; TILL; VEGETABLE OIL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIOREMEDIATION; CLAY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECHLORINATION; DEGRADATION; DEHALOCOCCOIDE; ELECTRON; FERMENTATION; FIELD STUDY; INJECTION; MASS; NONHUMAN; PILOT STUDY; SAND;

ALUMINUM SILICATES; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CHLORINE; CHLOROFLEXI; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTRONS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; ETHYLENES; FERMENTATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PERMEABILITY; TIME FACTORS;

DEHALOCOCCOIDES; GLYCINE MAX;

EID: 77954304745     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es1003044     Document Type: Article

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