The lack of microbial degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from coal-rich soils

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 623-629

  Achten, Christine ^a,c   Cheng, Shubo ^a,b   Straub, Kristina L ^a   Hofmann, Thilo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coal contamination; Microbial PAH degradation; PAH bioavailability; Soil slurry experiments

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC SOIL; ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES; ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS; ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; FLOODPLAIN SOILS; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; MICROBIAL PAH DEGRADATION; PAH BIOAVAILABILITY; PAH COMPOUNDS; PAH EXPOSURE; SLOW DESORPTION; SLURRY EXPERIMENT; SOIL COMMUNITY; SORPTION ENTHALPY;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIODEGRADATION; COAL; COAL INDUSTRY; CONTAMINATION; DEGRADATION; DESORPTION; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EXPERIMENTS; EXTRACTION; ISOMERS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; SILICA; SILICA GEL; SOILS; SUPERCRITICAL FLUID EXTRACTION; SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS;

SOIL POLLUTION;

COAL; PHENANTHRENE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; SORBENT;

BIOAVAILABILITY; DEGRADATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PAH; SLURRY; SOIL POLLUTION;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BIOAVAILABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; SOIL MICROFLORA; SOIL POLLUTION;

ADSORPTION; BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; COAL; POLYCYCLIC HYDROCARBONS, AROMATIC; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS;

EID: 78650513630     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2010.09.035     Document Type: Article

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