Review of reactive kinetic models describing reductive dechlorination of chlorinated ethenes in soil and groundwater

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-23

  Chambon, Julie C ^a   Bjerg, Poul L ^a   Scheutz, Charlotte ^a   Bælum, Jacob ^b,c   Jakobsen, Rasmus ^a   Binning, Philip J ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^c Chalmers University of Technology   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bioremediation; Dehalococcoides; Kinetic parameters; Modeling; Redox processes; Reductive dechlorination

Indexed keywords

BIOREMEDIATION; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEN; IRON COMPOUNDS; KINETIC PARAMETERS; KINETIC THEORY; METABOLISM; MODELS;

BACTERIAL GROWTH; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; CHLORINATED ETHENES; DEGRADATION PATHWAYS; DEGRADATION PROCESS; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; FATE AND TRANSPORT; FIELD APPLICATION; FIRST ORDER KINETICS; GEOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION; IRON REDUCTION; METABOLIC MODELS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL POPULATIONS; MODEL APPROACH; MODELING APPROACH; MODELING TOOL; MONOD KINETIC; REACTIVE KINETICS; REDOX PROCESS; REDUCTIVE DECHLORINATION; SUBSURFACE ENVIRONMENT; SULFATE REDUCING;

DECHLORINATION;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; ETHYLENE; GROUND WATER; HYDROGEN; IRON; SULFATE;

BACTERIAL GROWTH; DECHLORINATION; FERMENTATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; REDUCTIVE DECHLORINATION; REVIEW; SOIL ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DEHALOCOCCOIDES;

EID: 84869884539     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: 10970290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bit.24714     Document Type: Review

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