Bench-scaled nano-Fe0 permeable reactive barrier for nitrate removal

Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 82-94

  Hosseini, S Mossa ^a   Ataie Ashtiani, B ^b   Kholghi, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATCH EXPERIMENTS; CONTACT TIME; CONTAMINANT PLUME; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM; FUNNEL-AND-GATE; GATE WIDTHS; LABORATORY SCALE; LOW PERMEABILITY; N REMOVAL; NANO-FE; NITRATE REMOVAL; NITRATE-N; PERMEABLE REACTIVE BARRIERS; PORE BLOCKING; PORE VELOCITY; SOLVENT SYSTEM; STEADY-STATE CONDITION;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ETHANOL; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY; ORGANIC SOLVENTS; POROUS MATERIALS;

REDUCTION;

BYPASS; ETHANOL; GROUNDWATER FLOW; INHIBITOR; LABORATORY METHOD; LAMINAR FLOW; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NITRATE; PERMEABILITY; PLUME; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POROUS MEDIUM; REACTIVE BARRIER; SETTLING VELOCITY; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM;

EID: 80755139468     PISSN: 10693629     EISSN: 17456592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6592.2011.01352.x     Document Type: Article

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