Highly organic natural media as permeable reactive barriers: TCE partitioning and anaerobic degradation profile in eucalyptus mulch and compost

Chemosphere

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 665-671

  öztürk, Zuhal ^a   Tansel, Berrin ^b   Katsenovich, Yelena ^c   Sukop, Michael ^c   Laha, Shonali ^b  

^a AECOM   (United States)

^b Florida International University   (United States)

^c FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Organic soils; Partition coefficient; Permeable reactive barriers; Retardation factor; Sorption; TCE

Indexed keywords

DECHLORINATION; DECOMPOSITION; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; REACTION RATES; REMEDIATION; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS; SORPTION;

ANAEROBIC DECOMPOSITION; CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER; DECHLORINATION REACTION; ORGANIC SOIL; ORGANIC SOIL AMENDMENTS; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PERMEABLE REACTIVE BARRIERS; RETARDATION FACTORS;

COMPOSTING;

GROUND WATER; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; COMPOST; DEGRADATION; DICOTYLEDON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MULCH; ORGANIC SOIL; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PERMEABILITY; REACTION KINETICS; REACTIVE BARRIER; SOIL POLLUTION; SORPTION;

ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BATCH FERMENTATION; COMPOST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECHLORINATION; DECOMPOSITION; DEGRADATION; EUCALYPTUS; MULCH; NONHUMAN; SOIL AMENDMENT;

EUCALYPTUS;

EID: 84864939288     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: 18791298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2012.06.006     Document Type: Article

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