Isotopic fractionation by transverse dispersion: Flow-through microcosms and reactive transport modeling study

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 16, 2010, Pages 6167-6173

  Rolle, Massimo ^a   Chiogna, Gabriele ^a   Bauer, Robert ^b   Griebler, Christian ^b   Grathwohl, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FLOWTHROUGH; HYDRODYNAMIC DISPERSIONS; ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPE RATIO; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATIONS; ISOTOPOLOGUES; MEDIATED REACTIONS; METABOLIC ACTIVITY; MODEL CONTAMINANT; NITRATE REDUCTION; NONLINEAR COMPOUNDS; OUTLET PORT; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; PLUME FRINGES; POROUS MEDIUM; QUASI TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODELING; SECOND PHASE; STEADY STATE; STEADY-STATE CONDITION; TRANSVERSE DISPERSION;

BIODEGRADATION; DEGRADATION; ETHYLBENZENE; ISOTOPES; POROUS MATERIALS;

DISPERSIONS;

ETHYLBENZENE; ISOTOPE; NITRATE; OXYGEN;

BIODEGRADATION; CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; DIFFUSION; DISPERSION; HYDRODYNAMICS; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; METABOLISM; MICROCOSM; NITRATE; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANIC COMPOUND; POROUS MEDIUM; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; AROMATOLEUM AROMATICUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DISPERSION; FLOW; FRACTIONATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; MICROCOSM; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA;

AEROBIOSIS; ANAEROBIOSIS; CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; DIFFUSION; ECOSYSTEM; ISOTOPES; KINETICS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOTION; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 77956541129     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es101179f     Document Type: Article

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