Evaluation on the Nanoscale Zero Valent Iron Based Microbial Denitrification for Nitrate Removal from Groundwater

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Peng, Lai ^a   Liu, Yiwen ^a   Gao, Shu Hong ^a   Chen, Xueming ^a   Xin, Pei ^b   Dai, Xiaohu ^c   Ni, Bing Jie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Tongji University   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUND WATER; HYDROGEN; IRON; METAL NANOPARTICLE; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NITROGEN; NITROGEN OXIDE; WATER POLLUTANT;

CHEMISTRY; DENITRIFICATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TEMPERATURE; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTANT;

DENITRIFICATION; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEN; IRON; METAL NANOPARTICLES; NITRATES; NITROGEN; NITROGEN OXIDES; TEMPERATURE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84937958444     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep12331     Document Type: Article

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