34S/32S fractionation during sulfate reduction in groundwater treatment systems: Reactive transport modeling

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2863-2870

  Gibson, Blair D ^a   Amos, Richard T ^a   Blowes, David W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; CARBON-BASED; COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; CONCENTRATION RANGES; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; CONTAMINATED WATER; DISSOLUTION REACTIONS; FITTING MODEL; FRACTIONATION FACTORS; GROUNDWATER TREATMENT; ISOTOPE-RATIO MEASUREMENTS; PASSIVE TREATMENT; PERMEABLE REACTIVE BARRIERS; PRECIPITATION RATES; RATE OF REACTION; RAYLEIGH EQUATION; REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODELING; REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODELS; S COMPOUNDS; SULFATE REDUCTION; SULFUR ISOTOPE;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DISSOLUTION; GROUNDWATER; GYPSUM; ISOTOPES; MODELS; ORGANIC CARBON; REACTION RATES; SULFUR; WATER POLLUTION;

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT);

GROUND WATER; IRON; ISOTOPE; ORGANIC CARBON; SULFATE; SULFUR;

DISSOLUTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FRACTIONATION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANIC CARBON; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); RAYLEIGH NUMBER; REACTION RATE; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; REDUCTION; SULFATE; SULFUR ISOTOPE; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DATA BASE; DISSOLUTION; EXPERIMENT; FRACTIONATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MINE TAILINGS; PRECIPITATION; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION; CHEMICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANT;

CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; MODELS, CHEMICAL; SULFATES; SULFUR ISOTOPES; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 79953242175     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es1038276     Document Type: Article

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