Investigations on mobility of carbon colloid supported nanoscale zero-valent iron (nZVI) in a column experiment and a laboratory 2D-aquifer test system

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 21, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 10908-10916

  Busch, Jan ^a   Meißner, Tobias ^b   Potthoff, Annegret ^b   Oswald, Sascha E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR CERAMIC TECHNOLOGIES AND SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aquifer systems; Carbon colloid; Nanoscale zero valent iron (nZVI)

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION; COLLOID; IRON; LABORATORY METHOD; MOBILITY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PERMEABILITY; POROUS MEDIUM; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

CARBON; COLLOID; GROUND WATER; IRON; METAL NANOPARTICLE;

CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COLLOID; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; MOTION; POROSITY; PROCEDURES;

CARBON; COLLOIDS; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION AND REMEDIATION; GROUNDWATER; IRON; METAL NANOPARTICLES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOTION; POROSITY;

EID: 84907861005     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: 16147499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-014-3049-7     Document Type: Article

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