Evaluating TCE Abiotic and Biotic Degradation Pathways in a Permeable Reactive Barrier Using Compound Specific Isotope Analysis

Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 53-62

  Lojkasek Lima, Paulo ^a,b   Aravena, Ramon ^a   Shouakar Stash, Orfan ^a   Frape, Shaun K ^a   Marchesi, Massimo ^c   Fiorenza, Stephanie ^d   Vogan, John ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b Essencis Soluções Ambientais ^*  (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

^e ARCADIS Canada Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATCH EXPERIMENTS; BIOTIC DEGRADATION; BIOTIC PROCESS; CHLORINATED VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; COMPLEMENTARY TOOLS; COMPOUND-SPECIFIC ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; GEOCHEMICAL DATA; HYDRO-FRACTURING; INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES; ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS; ISOTOPE VALUES; ISOTOPIC DATA; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATIONS; MONITORING WELLS; PERMEABLE REACTIVE BARRIERS; PILOT SCALE; REDUCING CONDITIONS; SITE-SPECIFIC; STABLE ISOTOPES; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; VOC-REDUCTION; WATER MONITORING; ZERO-VALENT IRON; ZEROVALENT IRONS;

BIODEGRADATION; CHLORINE; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; EXPERIMENTS; GROUNDWATER; IMPURITIES; REDUCTION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

ISOTOPES;

AZIMUTH; BIODEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; INSTALLATION; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; PERMEABILITY; PLUME; POLLUTANT SOURCE; STABLE ISOTOPE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

CYAMOPSIS TETRAGONOLOBA;

EID: 84869888563     PISSN: 10693629     EISSN: 17456592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6592.2012.01403.x     Document Type: Article

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