Transport and retention of xanthan gum-stabilized microscale zero-valent iron particles in saturated porous media

Water Research

Volumn 88, Issue , 2016, Pages 199-206

  Xin, Jia ^a   Tang, Fenglin ^a   Zheng, Xilai ^a   Shao, Haibing ^b   Kolditz, Olaf ^b  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Microscale zero valent iron (mZVI); Porous media; Transport; Xanthan gum (XG)

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FLOW RATE; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROCHEMISTRY; IRON; POROUS MATERIALS; REMEDIATION; SEDIMENTATION; SHEAR THINNING; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; PARTICLE STABILIZATION; RHEOLOGICAL MEASUREMENTS; SATURATED POROUS MEDIA; SHEAR THINNING FLUIDS; TRANSPORT; ZERO-VALENT IRON;

XANTHAN GUM;

GROUND WATER; IRON NANOPARTICLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; XANTHAN; XANTHAN GUM STABILIZED MICROSCALE ZERO VALENT IRON PARTICLE; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; IRON;

BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FEASIBILITY STUDY; FLOW PATTERN; GROUNDWATER; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; IRON; MOBILITY; PARTICLE SIZE; POROUS MEDIUM; REMEDIATION; RHEOLOGY; SEDIMENTATION; WATER CHEMISTRY;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; FLOW RATE; IONIC STRENGTH; IRON TRANSPORT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL DENSITY; PARTICLE SIZE; PH; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENTATION; SHEAR RATE; SUSPENSION; CHEMISTRY; PROCEDURES; WATER FLOW;

ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION AND REMEDIATION; GROUNDWATER; IRON; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; POROSITY; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84944929863     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: 18792448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2015.10.005     Document Type: Article

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