A two and half-year-performance evaluation of a field test on treatment of source zone tetrachloroethene and its chlorinated daughter products using emulsified zero valent iron nanoparticles

Water Research

Volumn 46, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 5071-5084

  Su, Chunming ^a   Puls, Robert W ^a,e   Krug, Thomas A ^b   Watling, Mark T ^b   O'Hara, Suzanne K ^b   Quinn, Jacqueline W ^c   Ruiz, Nancy E ^d  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b GEOSYNTEC CONSULTANTS   (United States)

^c National Aeronautics and Space Administration Kennedy Space Center   (United States)

^d NAVAL FACILITIES ENGINEERING SERVICE CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emulsified zero valent iron nanoparticles; Groundwater remediation; Mass flux; Pneumatic and direct injections; Reductive dechlorination; Tetrachloroethene

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; DISSOLUTION; EMULSIFICATION; ETHYLENE; GROUNDWATER; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; IRON; NANOPARTICLES; ORGANIC CARBON; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VEGETABLE OILS; VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS;

% REDUCTIONS; EMULSIFIED ZERO VALENT IRON NANOPARTICLE; FIELD TEST; GROUND WATER REMEDIATION; PNEUMATIC AND DIRECT INJECTION; REDUCTIVE DECHLORINATION; SOURCE ZONE; TETRACHLOROETHENE; ZERO-VALENT IRON; ZERO-VALENT IRON NANOPARTICLES;

VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

CORN OIL; EMULSIFIED ZERO VALENT IRON NANOPARTICLE; ETHYLENE; GROUND WATER; METAL NANOPARTICLE; SULFATE; SULFIDE; SURFACTANT; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLATILE FATTY ACID; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; WELL WATER;

BIOTECHNOLOGY; DECHLORINATION; EMULSION; FATTY ACID; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; IRON; MOBILIZATION; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; REMEDIATION; SUBSURFACE FLOW; SULFIDE; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; VEGETABLE OIL; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; WATER TREATMENT; WELL WATER;

ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; CHLORINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECHLORINATION; DEGRADATION; FIELD EXPERIMENT; PERFORMANCE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; UNITED STATES;

SOUTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84865959748     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2012.06.051     Document Type: Article

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