Carbon and chlorine isotope ratios of chlorinated ethenes migrating through a thick unsaturated zone of a sandy aquifer

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 8247-8253

  Hunkeler, Daniel ^a   Aravena, Ramon ^b   Shouakar Stash, Orfan ^b   Weisbrod, Noam ^c   Nasser, Ahmed ^d   Netzer, Lior ^c   Ronen, Daniel ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^e Israel Water Authority   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS PHASE; CHLORINATED ETHENES; CIS-1 ,2-DICHLOROETHENE; COASTAL PLAIN AQUIFERS; COMPOUND-SPECIFIC ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION GRADIENTS; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENTS; HIGH CONCENTRATION; ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPE RATIO; ISOTOPOLOGUES; LAND SURFACE; MODELING STUDIES; NUMERICAL MODELS; SANDY AQUIFERS; SATURATED ZONE; STEADY STATE; SUBSURFACE SOURCE; TETRACHLOROETHENE; UNSATURATED ZONE; VAPOR PHASE; WATER TABLES;

AQUIFERS; CARBON; CHLORINE; ETHYLENE; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; ISOTOPES; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; UNSATURATED COMPOUNDS; VAPORS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

CARBON; CHLORINE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; GROUND WATER; ISOTOPE;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; CHLORINE ISOTOPE; COASTAL PLAIN; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIFFUSION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LAND SURFACE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHREATIC ZONE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; VADOSE ZONE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; WATER TABLE;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTAMINATION; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; FRACTIONATION; GAS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; SANDY SOIL; STEADY STATE; VAPOR;

CARBON; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHLORINE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DICHLOROETHYLENES; FORENSIC SCIENCES; GROUNDWATER; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; ISOTOPE LABELING; ISRAEL; KINETICS; MOTION; SILICON DIOXIDE; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

EID: 80053389276     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es201415k     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Hunkeler, D.; Chollet, N.; Pittet, X.; Aravena, R.; Cherry, J. A.; Parker, B. L. Effect of source variability and transport processes on carbon isotope ratios of TCE and PCE in two sandy aquifers J. Contam. Hydrol. 2004, 74, 265-282
2. Blessing, M.; Schmidt, T. C.; Dinkel, R.; Haderlein, S. B. Delineation of multiple chlorinated ethene sources in an industrialized area-A Forensic field study using compound-specific isotope analysis Environ. Sci. Technol. 2009, 43 (8) 2701-2707
3. Jendrzejewski, N.; Eggenkamp, H. G. M.; Coleman, M. L. Characterisation of chlorinated hydrocarbons from chlorine and carbon isotopic compositions: scope of application to environmental problems Appl. Geochem. 2001, 16, 1021-1031 (Pubitemid 32417911)
4. Shouakar-Stash, O.; Frape, S. K.; Drimmie, R. J. Stable hydrogen, carbon and chlorine isotope measurements of selected chlorinated solvents J. Contam. Hydrol. 2003, 60 (3-4) 211-228 (Pubitemid 36026515)
5. van Warmerdam, E. M.; Frape, S. K.; Aravena, R.; Drimmie, R. J.; Flatt, H.; Cherry, J. A. Stable chlorine and carbon isotope measurements of selected organic solvents Appl. Geochem. 1995, 10, 547-552 (Pubitemid 26462482)
6. Bouchard, D.; Höhener, P.; Hunkeler, D. Carbon isotope fractionation during volatilization of a petroleum hydrocarbon source and diffusion accross a porous medium: a column experiment Environ. Sci. Technol. 2008, 42 (21) 7801-7806
7. Kuder, T.; Philp, P.; Allen, I. Effects of volatilization on carbon and hydrogen isotope ratios of MTBE Environ. Sci. Technol. 2009, 43, 1763-1768
8. Poulson, S. R.; Drever, J. I. Stable isotope (C, Cl, and H) fractionation during vaporization of trichloroethylene Environ. Sci. Technol. 1999, 33 (20) 3689-3694 (Pubitemid 29496426)
9. Wang, Y.; Huang, Y. S. Hydrogen isotope fractionation of low molecular weight n-alkanes during progressive vaporization Org. Geochem. 2001, 32 (8) 991-998
10. Wang, Y.; Huang, Y. S. Hydrogen isotopic fractionation of petroleum hydrocarbons during vaporization: implications for assessing artificial and natural remediation of petroleum contamination Appl. Geochem. 2003, 18 (10) 1641-1651 (Pubitemid 36901029)
11. Bouchard, D.; Hunkeler, D.; Gaganis, P.; Aravena, R.; Höhener, P.; Kjeldsen, P. Carbon isotope fractionation during migration of petroleum hydrocarbon vapors in the unsaturated zone: field experiment at Værløse Airbase, Denmark, and modeling Environ. Sci. Technol. 2008, 42, 596-601 (Pubitemid 351461914)
12. Bradley, P. M. Microbial degradation of chloroethenes in groundwater systems Hydrogeol. J. 2000, 8, 104-111 (Pubitemid 32053880)
13. Ronen, D.; Lev-Wiener, H.; Graber, E.; Dahan, O.; Weisbrod, N. Simultaneous counter-flow of chlorinated volatile organic compounds across the saturated-unsaturated interface region of an aquifer Water Res. 2010, 44, 2107-2112
14. Issar, A. Stratigraphy and paleoclimates of the pleistocene of central and nothern Israel Palaeogeogr. Palaeocl. 1980, 29 (3-4) 261-280 (Pubitemid 11268064)
15. Nativ, R.; Weisbrod, N. Hydraulic connections among subaquifers of the coastal-plain aquifer, Israel Ground Water 1994, 32 (6) 997-1007
16. Graber, E.; Laor, Y.; Ronen, D. Aquifer contamination by chlorinated-VOCs: the case of an urban metropolis megasite overlying the Coastal Plain aquifer in Israel Hydrogeol. J. 2008, 16 (8) 1615-1623
17. Ronen, D.; Magaritz, M.; Levy, I. A multilayer sampler for the study of detailed hydrochemical profiles in groundwater Water Res. 1986, 20 (3) 311-315 (Pubitemid 16074454)
18. Kaplan, E.; Banerjee, S.; Ronen, D.; Magaritz, M.; Machlin, A.; Sosnow, M.; Koglin, E. Multilayer sampling in the water-table region of a sandy aquifer Ground Water 1991, 29 (2) 191-198
19. Laor, Y.; Ronen, D.; Graber, E. R. Using a passive multilayer sampler for measuring detailed profiles of gas-phase VOCs in the unsaturated zone Environ. Sci. Technol. 2003, 37 (2) 352-360 (Pubitemid 36109782)
20. Ronen, D.; Graber, E. R.; Mingelgrin, U.; Gerstl., Z.; Weisbrod, N.; Dahan, O.; Nassar, A.; Lev-Wiener, H.; Miltau, R. Assessment of aquifer contamination in the Nahalat Itzhak area-Tel Aviv; Final Report-Phase II; Israel Water Authority: 2007.
21. Hunkeler, D.; Aravena, R. Determination of stable carbon isotope ratios of chlorinated methanes, ethanes and ethenes in aqueous samples Environ. Sci. Technol. 2000, 34, 2839-2844 (Pubitemid 30436994)
22. Shouakar-Stash, O.; Drimmie, R. J.; Zhang, M.; Frape, S. K. Compound-specific chlorine isotope ratios of TCE, PCE and DCE isomers by direct injection using CF-IRMS Appl. Geochem. 2006, 21, 766-781
23. Ronen, D.; Graber, E. R.; Laor, Y. Volatile organic compounds in the saturated-unsaturated interface region of a contaminated phreatic aquifer Vadose Zone J. 2005, 4 (2) 337-344
24. van Genuchten, M. T. A closed-form equation for predicting the hydraulic conductivity of unsaturated soils Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 1980, 44 (5) 892-898
25. Ronen, D.; Magaritz, M.; Paldor, N. Microscale haline convection-a proposed mechanism for transport and mixing at the water table region Water Resour. Res. 1988, 24 (7) 1111-1117 (Pubitemid 19297444)
26. McCarthy, K. A.; Johnson, R. L. Transport of volatile organic-compounds across the capillary-fringe Water Resour. Res. 1993, 29 (6) 1675-1683 (Pubitemid 24393840)
27. Rivett, M. O. Soil-gas signatures form volatile chlorinated solvents-Borden field experiments Ground Water 1995, 33 (1) 84-98
28. Bloom, Y.; Aravena, R.; Hunkeler, D.; Edwards, E.; Frape, S. K. Carbon isotope fractionation during microbial dechlorination of trichloroethene, cis-1,2-dichloroethene and vinyl chloride: implication for assessment of natural attenuation Environ. Sci. Technol. 2000, 34, 2768-2772 (Pubitemid 30436983)
29. Hunkeler, D.; Aravena, R.; Butler, B. J. Monitoring microbial dechlorination of tetrachloroethene (PCE) using compound-specific carbon isotope ratios: Microcosms and field experiments Environ. Sci. Technol. 1999, 33 (16) 2733-2738 (Pubitemid 29387810)
30. Slater, G. F.; Sherwood Lollar, B.; Sleep, B.; Edwards, E. Variability in carbon isotopic fractionation during biodegradation of chlorinated ethenes: implications for field applications Environ. Sci. Technol. 2001, 35, 901-907
31. Ronen, D.; Netzer, L.; Nassar, A.; Weisbrod, N.; Kurtzman, D.; Graber, E. R. Assessment of aquifer contamination in the Nahalat Itzhak area; Final Report-Phase III; Israel Water Authority: 2010.
32. 35Cl variations in a diffusion-controlled groundwater system Geochim Cosmochim. Acta 1986, 50 (8) 1757-1764
33. Rolle, M.; Chiogna, G.; Bauer, R.; Griebler, C.; Grathwohl, P. Isotopic fractionation by transverse dispersion: flow-through microcosms and reactive transport modeling study Environ. Sci. Technol. 2010, 44 (16) 6167-6173