A model framework to describe growth-linked biodegradation of trace-level pollutants in the presence of coincidental carbon substrates and microbes

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 22, 2014, Pages 13358-13366

  Liu, Li ^a   Helbling, Damian E ^b,c   Kohler, Hans Peter E ^b   Smets, Barth F ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CARBON; DEGRADATION; KINETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROORGANISMS; ORGANIC CARBON; PESTICIDES; POLLUTION; SUBSTRATES;

ASSIMILABLE ORGANIC CARBON; CONTAMINATED ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; MICROBIAL BIODEGRADATION; MICROBIAL GROWTH RATE; NATURAL AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; REMEDIATION STRATEGIES; SUBSTRATE UTILIZATION;

BIODEGRADATION;

ORGANIC CARBON; PESTICIDE; 2,4-DICHLOROPHENOL; CARBON; CHLOROPHENOL; POLLUTANT;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; BIODEGRADATION; BIOENGINEERING; BIOREMEDIATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GROWTH RATE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; PESTICIDE;

ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; ENZYME INDUCTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KINETICS; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MICROORGANISM; NONHUMAN; POLLUTANT; BACTERIUM; BIOREMEDIATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; THEORETICAL MODEL;

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; CARBON; CHLOROPHENOLS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KINETICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84924305826     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es503491w     Document Type: Article

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