Integrated evaluation of the performance of a more than seven year old permeable reactive barrier at a site contaminated with chlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbons (CAHs)

Journal of Contaminant Hydrology

Volumn 126, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 258-270

  Muchitsch, Nanna ^a   Van Nooten, Thomas ^b   Bastiaens, Leen ^b   Kjeldsen, Peter ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Chlorinated solvents; Groundwater remediation; Microbial characterization; Mineralogical characterization; PCR; Zero valent iron; ZVI

Indexed keywords

CHLORINATED SOLVENT; GROUNDWATER REMEDIATION; MICROBIAL CHARACTERIZATION; MINERALOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION; PCR; ZERO-VALENT IRON; ZVI;

BACTERIA; CARBONATE MINERALS; CHARACTERIZATION; CORE SAMPLES; DEGRADATION; DEHALOGENATION; DICHLOROMETHANE; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY; HYDROCARBONS; IMPURITIES; IRON; REMEDIATION; SILICATE MINERALS; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

1,1,1 TRICHLOROETHANE; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBONATE GREEN RUST; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; DICHLOROETHYLENE; DICHLOROMETHANE; FERROUS SULFIDE; GROUND WATER; IRON; MINERAL; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URANIUM;

ALIPHATIC HYDROCARBON; BACTERIUM; CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON; CORROSION; DEGRADATION; GROUNDWATER; MINERALOGY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); REACTIVE BARRIER; REMEDIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SULFATE;

ARCHAEBACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; CARBON MINERALIZATION; CONCENTRATION PROCESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; DENITRIFYING BACTERIUM; EUBACTERIACEAE; GEOBACTERACEAE; IRON REDUCING BACTERIUM; METHANOGEN; MICROBIAL CORROSION; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; MINERALOGY; ORGANISMS BY METABOLISM; PERMEABLE REACTIVE BARRIER; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SULFATE REDUCING BACTERIUM; WASTE COMPONENT REMOVAL; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER SAMPLING;

BACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIATION; GROUNDWATER; HYDROCARBONS, CHLORINATED; IRON; TIME FACTORS; WATER PURIFICATION;

DEHALOCOCCOIDES; DESULFUROMONAS;

EID: 80155135608     PISSN: 01697722     EISSN: 18736009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jconhyd.2011.08.007     Document Type: Article

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