Aesthetic groundwater quality impacts from a continuous pilot-scale release of an ethanol blend

Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 47-54

  Ma, Jie ^a   Xiu, Zongming ^a   Monier, Amy L ^a   Mamonkina, Irina ^b   Zhang, Yi ^b   He, Yongzhi ^b   Stafford, Brent P ^c   Rixey, William G ^b   Alvarez, Pedro J J ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AESTHETIC IMPACTS; ANAEROBIC CONDITIONS; AQUEOUS CONCENTRATIONS; AQUIFER SYSTEMS; BENZENE AND TOLUENE; COMBUSTIBLE GAS; CONTINUOUS-FLOW; ETHANOL BLEND; ETHANOL SOLUTIONS; FINE GRAINS; FUEL ETHANOL; GROUNDWATER QUALITY; GROUNDWATER TEMPERATURES; MAXIMUM CONTAMINANT LEVELS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITIES; ODOR GENERATION; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PILOT SCALE; SEASONAL VARIATION; STRONG CORRELATION; TEMPERATURE VARIATION; WATER TABLES;

ACETIC ACID; AQUIFERS; BENZENE; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BUTYRIC ACID; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ETHANOL; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; METHANE; PH EFFECTS; TOLUENE; WATER QUALITY;

VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS;

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; BIOREACTOR; ESTHETICS; ETHANOL; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 80051816046     PISSN: 10693629     EISSN: 17456592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6592.2011.01334.x     Document Type: Article

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