Impacts of shallow geothermal energy production on redox processes and microbial communities

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 14476-14484

  Bonte, Matthijs ^a,c   Röling, Wilfred F M ^b   Zaura, Egija ^b   Van Der Wielen, Paul W J J ^a   Stuyfzand, Pieter J ^a,b   Van Breukelen, Boris M ^b  

^a KWR WATERCYCLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE; GROUND-WATER QUALITIES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; METHANOGENIC CONDITION; SHALLOW GEOTHERMAL ENERGIES; SHALLOW GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS; TEMPERATURE PERTURBATIONS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVE;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; AQUIFERS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GEOTHERMAL FIELDS; HYDROGEOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS; TEMPERATURE; WATER QUALITY;

SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

IRON; SULFATE;

ACTIVATION ENERGY; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; AQUIFER; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOENERGETICS; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POWER GENERATION; REDOX CONDITIONS; REDUCTION; SULFATE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; UNCONSOLIDATED MEDIUM; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; CATALYST; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME STABILITY; FERMENTATION; GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; MESOPHILIC BACTERIUM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEDIMENT; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMOPHILIC BACTERIUM;

BACTERIA; CARBON; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; HOT TEMPERATURE; IRON; KINETICS; METHANE; MICROBIOTA; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; SULFATES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84890580027     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es4030244     Document Type: Article

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