Physicochemical heterogeneity controls on uranium bioreduction rates at the field scale

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 9959-9966

  Li, Li ^a   Gawande, Nitin ^a   Kowalsky, Michael B ^b   Steefel, Carl I ^b   Hubbard, Susan S ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOREDUCTIONS; BIOSTIMULATION; DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY; FIELD DATA; FIELD SCALE; INJECTION WELLS; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LABORATORY SYSTEM; LOCAL SCALE; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; PREFERENTIAL FLOWS; REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODELING; REDUCTION RATE; SITE CHARACTERISTICS; SOLID-PHASE; SPATIAL SCALE; SYSTEM RESPONSE;

BACTERIA; GROUNDWATER FLOW; IRON COMPOUNDS; URANIUM;

WELLS;

FERRIC ION; URANIUM;

FIELD SURVEY; HETEROGENEITY; IRON-REDUCING BACTERIUM; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; URANIUM;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; POLLUTION;

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; URANIUM;

EID: 82355188333     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es201111y     Document Type: Article

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