Enhanced denitrification in groundwater and sediments from a nitrate-contaminated aquifer after addition of pyrite

Chemical Geology

Volumn 287, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 90-101

  Torrentó, Clara ^a   Urmeneta, Jordi ^b   Otero, Neus ^b   Soler, Albert ^b   Viñas, Marc ^c   Cama, Jordi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c GIRO Technological Centre   (Spain)

Author keywords

Autotrophic denitrification; Bioremediation; DGGE; Nitrate isotopes; Pyrite; QPCR

Indexed keywords

16S RRNA; AQUIFER MATERIALS; AUTOTROPHIC DENITRIFICATION; BACTERIAL POPULATION; DENITRIFIERS; DENITRIFYING BACTERIA; DGGE; ELECTRON DONORS; FIELD CONDITIONS; FLOWTHROUGH; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC ENRICHMENT; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; NITRATE ISOTOPES; NITRATE REMOVAL; NITRATE-CONTAMINATED AQUIFER; QPCR; QUANTITATIVE PCR; THIOBACILLUS DENITRIFICANS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; AQUIFERS; BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DENITRIFICATION; EXPERIMENTS; GENES; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; NITRATES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

NITROGEN REMOVAL;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; BACTERIUM; BIOREMEDIATION; DENITRIFICATION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; PYRITE; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); THIOBACILLUS DENITRIFICANS; XANTHOMONADACEAE;

EID: 79960234670     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.06.002     Document Type: Article

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