Transport of ferrihydrite nanoparticles in saturated porous media: Role of ionic strength and flow rate

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 4008-4015

  Tosco, Tiziana ^a   Bosch, Julian ^b   Meckenstock, Rainer U ^b   Sethi, Rajandrea ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER REMEDIATION; COLLOIDAL DISPERSION; COLUMN TEST; CONTAMINATED AQUIFER; ELECTROLYTE SOLUTIONS; FERRIHYDRITES; FIELD APPLICATION; FIELD INJECTION; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; IN-SITU REMEDIATION; INJECTION RATES; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; NANO SCALE; NATURAL FLOW; PARTICLE MOBILITY; PARTICLE RETENTION; RADIUS OF INFLUENCES; REACTIVE ZONES; SALT CONCENTRATION; SALT CONTENT; SATURATED POROUS MEDIA; SMALL SIZE; TRANSPORT MECHANISM; TRAVEL DISTANCE; TUNING PARAMETER;

AQUIFERS; BIODEGRADATION; CONTAMINATION; FLOW RATE; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; IMPURITIES; IONIC STRENGTH; NANOPARTICLES;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

FERRIC HYDROXIDE; GROUND WATER; NANOPARTICLE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AQUIFER POLLUTION; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; COLLOID; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ELECTROKINESIS; FERRIHYDRITE; ION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MOBILITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION EFFECT; POROUS MEDIUM; SALT; SATURATION; SUBSURFACE FLOW;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; COLLOID; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DISPERSION; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY; ENERGY; FLOW RATE; IONIC STRENGTH; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; PH; POROSITY; SYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE; TRANSPORT KINETICS; TRANSPORT MEDIUM;

COLLOIDS; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; KINETICS; MOTION; NANOPARTICLES; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; POROSITY; RHEOLOGY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EUROPE;

EID: 84859350799     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es202643c     Document Type: Article

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