Benchscale Assessment of the Efficacy of a Reactive Core Mat to Isolate PAH-Spiked Aquatic Sediments

Soil and Sediment Contamination

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 18-36

  Meric, Dogus ^a   Barbuto, Sara ^b   Sheahan, Thomas C ^b   Shine, James P ^c   Alshawabkeh, Akram N ^b  

^a GEOSYNTEC CONSULTANTS   (United States)

^b Northeastern University   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Contamination; organoclay; RCM; reactive mat; remediation; sediment

Indexed keywords

BENCH-SCALE TESTING; NON-REACTIVE TRACER; RCM; REACTIVE MAT; REACTIVE MATERIALS; SEMI-VOLATILE ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS; SORPTION CAPACITIES; SORPTION CHARACTERISTICS;

CONTAMINATION; EXPERIMENTS; NAPHTHALENE; ORGANOCLAY; REMEDIATION; RIVERS; SORPTION; TESTING;

SEDIMENTS;

EID: 84883473817     PISSN: 15320383     EISSN: 15497887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15320383.2013.772093     Document Type: Article

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