Reactive Transport Modeling of ZVI Column Experiments for Nickel Remediation

Groundwater Monitoring and Remediation

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 97-104

  Bilardi, Stefania ^a   Amos, Richard T ^b   Blowes, David W ^b   Calabrò, Paolo S ^a   Moraci, Nicola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; COLUMN TEST; CONTAMINANT REMOVAL; CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER; ELECTRON TRANSFER RATES; EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIPS; IRON SURFACE; LABORATORY COLUMNS; MINERAL PRECIPITATION; MULTICOMPONENT REACTIVE TRANSPORTS; NICKEL REMOVAL; REACTIVE TRANSPORT MODELING; REACTIVITY LOSS; VARIABLY SATURATED; ZEROVALENT IRONS;

GROUNDWATER; IMPURITIES; LASERS; MODELS; NICKEL; REMEDIATION;

PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL);

BIOREMEDIATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MINERAL; NICKEL; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POROUS MEDIUM; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY);

EID: 84873998127     PISSN: 10693629     EISSN: 17456592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6592.2012.01417.x     Document Type: Article

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