Benzene and sulfide removal from groundwater treated in a microbial fuel cell

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 110, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3104-3113

  Rakoczy, Jana ^a,b   Feisthauer, Stefan ^a   Wasmund, Kenneth ^a,c   Bombach, Petra ^a   Neu, Thomas R ^a   Vogt, Carsten ^a   Richnow, Hans H ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Benzene degradation; Contaminated groundwater; Microbial fuel cell; Pyrosequencing; Stable isotope analysis

Indexed keywords

BENZENE DEGRADATION; CATION EXCHANGE MEMBRANES; COMPOUND-SPECIFIC ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; PYROSEQUENCING; STABLE-ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; SULFIDE CONCENTRATION;

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION; GROUNDWATER; ISOTOPES; MICROBIAL FUEL CELLS; RNA; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; WATER TREATMENT;

BENZENE;

BENZENE; GROUND WATER; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA 16S; STABLE ISOTOPE; SULFIDE;

ANAEROBIC METABOLISM; AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDETES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; BIOINFORMATICS; CATION EXCHANGE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHLOROFLEXI; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; DEGRADATION; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; DNA ISOLATION; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRON; FATTY ACID ANALYSIS; FIRMICUTES; GEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL FUEL CELL; MINERALIZATION; PYROSEQUENCING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHLOROFLEXI; CHLOROFLEXI (CLASS); DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; FIRMICUTES; NEGIBACTERIA; PROTEOBACTERIA;

BENZENE DEGRADATION; CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER; MICROBIAL FUEL CELL; PYROSEQUENCING; STABLE ISOTOPE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA; BENZENE; BIOELECTRIC ENERGY SOURCES; BIOTA; BIOTRANSFORMATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; ELECTRICITY; GROUNDWATER; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SULFIDES; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 84886260776     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: 10970290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bit.24979     Document Type: Article

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