Removal of copper and zinc from ground water by granular zero-valent iron: A dynamic freeze-thaw permeable reactive barrier laboratory experiment

Cold Regions Science and Technology

Volumn 110, Issue , 2015, Pages 120-128

  Statham, Tom M ^a   Mumford, Kathryn A ^a   Rayner, John L ^b   Stevens, Geoffrey W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Freeze thaw; Heavy metals; PRB; Tracers; ZVI

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; EXPERIMENTS; FREEZING; GROUNDWATER; HEAVY METALS; IMPURITIES; IRON; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; THAWING; ZINC;

CONSERVATIVE TRACERS; CONTAMINANT REMOVAL; FREEZE-THAW; HYDRAULIC RETENTION TIME; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; PERMEABLE REACTIVE BARRIERS; PRB; ZVI;

CHEMICALS REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT);

COPPER; FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; GROUNDWATER; HEAVY METAL; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LABORATORY METHOD; PARTICLE SIZE; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; RETENTION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TRACER; WATER QUALITY; ZINC;

EID: 84919933633     PISSN: 0165232X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coldregions.2014.12.001     Document Type: Article

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