Redox control and hydrogen production in sediment caps using carbon cloth electrodes

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 8209-8215

  Sun, Mei ^a   Yan, Fei ^b   Zhang, Ruiling ^b   Reible, Danny D ^b   Lowry, Gregory V ^a   Gregory, Kelvin B ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANACOSTIA RIVER; APPLIED POTENTIALS; APPLIED VOLTAGES; BIOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION; CARBON ELECTRODE; CARBON-CLOTH ELECTRODES; CONTAMINANT DEGRADATION; COULOMBIC EFFICIENCY; ELECTRODE SURFACES; ELECTRON DONORS; GEOCHEMICAL FACTORS; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTERS; POISED POTENTIAL; PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN; REDOX GRADIENTS; SEDIMENT CAP; WASHINGTON; WATER ELECTROLYSIS; ZERO ORDER KINETICS;

BATCH REACTORS; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CONTAMINATION; DECHLORINATION; DEGRADATION; ELECTRODES; GAS PRODUCERS; IMPURITIES; IONIC STRENGTH; ORGANIC CARBON; OXYGEN; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

HYDROGEN PRODUCTION;

CARBON; CHLOROBENZENE; HYDROGEN; NATURAL ORGANIC MATTER; SORBENT; TETRACHLOROBENZENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOREACTOR; CARBON; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DECHLORINATION; ELECTRODE; ELECTROKINESIS; ELECTRON; HYDROGEN; ION; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANIC MATTER; OXYGEN; PH; REACTION KINETICS; REDOX POTENTIAL; TRANSFORMATION;

ARTICLE; BATCH REACTOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECHLORINATION; DEGRADATION; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRODE; ELECTROLYSIS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; IONIC STRENGTH; KINETICS; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PH MEASUREMENT; SAND; SEDIMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION;

CARBON; CHLOROBENZENES; ELECTROCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES; ELECTRODES; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

ANACOSTIA;

EID: 78549238267     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es101003j     Document Type: Article

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