Reductive sequestration of pertechnetate (99TcO4 -) by nano zerovalent iron (nZVI) transformed by abiotic sulfide

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 5302-5310

  Fan, Dimin ^a   Anitori, Roberto P ^a   Tebo, Bradley M ^a   Tratnyek, Paul G ^a   Pacheco, Juan S Lezama ^b,c   Kukkadapu, Ravi K ^d   Engelhard, Mark H ^d   Bowden, Mark E ^d   Kovarik, Libor ^d   Arey, Bruce W ^d  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; NANO ZERO-VALENT IRONS; NANOCRYSTALLINES; PERTECHNETATE; RE-OXIDATION; REMOVAL KINETICS; REMOVAL RATE; SULFATE REDUCTION;

AQUIFERS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; IRON; REMEDIATION; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

GROUND WATER; IRON; IRON OXIDE; NANO ZEROVALENT IRON; PERTECHNETIC ACID TC 99M; SULFATE; SULFIDE; SULFUR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; ESTER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; IRON; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; REACTION KINETICS; REMEDIATION; SEQUESTRATION (CHEMISTRY); SPECIATION (CHEMISTRY); SULFIDE; TRANSFORMATION;

ARTICLE; BIOREMEDIATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; KINETICS; SOLID; WATER CONTAMINATION; X RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

IRON; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SODIUM PERTECHNETATE TC 99M; SULFIDES; X-RAY ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY;

HANFORD; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 84878243855     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es304829z     Document Type: Article

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