A field and modeling study of fractured rock permeability reduction using microbially induced calcite precipitation

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 13637-13643

  Cuthbert, Mark O ^a   McMillan, Lindsay A ^a   Handley Sidhu, Stephanie ^a   Riley, Michael S ^a   Tobler, Dominique J ^b,c   Phoenix, Vernon R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITE PRECIPITATION; FIELD AND MODEL STUDIES; FIELD CONDITIONS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; POLLUTION MITIGATION; REACTIVE TRANSPORT PROCESS; SUBSURFACE CONTAMINATION; VIABLE SOLUTIONS;

CALCITE; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; NUMERICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS; UREA;

ROCKS;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; GROUND WATER; UREA;

BACTERIUM; CALCITE; CALCIUM; FRACTURE FLOW; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GROUTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TRANSMISSIVITY; UREA;

ARTICLE; FIELD STUDY; MICROBIALLY INDUCED CALCITE PRECIPITATION; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PERMEABILITY; PRECIPITATION; ROCK; SIMULATION; SOLUTE; SPOROSARCINA PASTEURII; WATER CONTAMINATION; CHEMISTRY; EVALUATION STUDY; METABOLISM; POROSITY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; SPOROSARCINA; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTION;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CALCIUM CHLORIDE; CHEMICAL PRECIPITATION; GROUNDWATER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PERMEABILITY; POROSITY; SPOROSARCINA; UREA; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 84889842609     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es402601g     Document Type: Article

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