Removal of Volatile Organic Compounds in Vertical Flow Filters: Predictions from Reactive Transport Modeling

Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 106-121

  De Biase, Cecilia ^a   Maier, Uli ^b   Baeder Bederski, Oliver ^a   Bayer, Peter ^c   Oswald, Sascha E ^d   Thullner, Martin ^a,e  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC BIODEGRADATION; AEROBIC DEGRADATION; BIODEGRADATION RATE; CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER; DEGRADATION RATE; DOMESTIC WASTEWATER; FILTER MATERIALS; FILTER OPERATIONS; GASPHASE; METHYL TERTIARY BUTYL ETHER; MODEL PREDICTION; OPERATION CONDITIONS; OPERATION MODE; OPTIMIZED OPERATIONS; PARTLY SATURATED; PILOT SCALE; POROUS MEDIUM; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODELING; REMEDIATION TECHNOLOGIES; SYSTEM'S PERFORMANCE; TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES; VERTICAL FLOW FILTERS; VOC EMISSIONS; VOLATILE COMPOUNDS; VOLATILE EMISSIONS;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; BENZENE; BIODEGRADATION; DEGRADATION; ETHERS; FORECASTING; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; LAND FILL; MICROBIOLOGY; POROUS MATERIALS; REMEDIATION; WATER TREATMENT;

VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

ADVECTION-DIFFUSION EQUATION; AMMONIUM; BENZENE; BIODEGRADATION; FILTER; FLOW PATTERN; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MTBE; OXIC CONDITIONS; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POROUS MEDIUM; REACTION KINETICS; REACTION RATE; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; REMEDIATION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; VOLATILIZATION; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 84860642923     PISSN: 10693629     EISSN: 17456592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6592.2011.01374.x     Document Type: Article

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