Reductive Dechlorination of Trichloroethene by Zero-valent Iron Nanoparticles: Reactivity Enhancement through Sulfidation Treatment

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 23, 2016, Pages 12992-13001

  Han, Yanlai ^a   Yan, Weile ^a  

^a Texas Tech University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL REACTIONS; DECHLORINATION; IMPURITIES; IRON COMPOUNDS; NANOPARTICLES; RATE CONSTANTS; REACTION RATES; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; SULFUR; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SURFACE REACTIONS; SURFACE TREATMENT; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

CATALYTIC PATHWAYS; ENHANCEMENT EFFECTS; PARTICLE PREPARATIONS; REACTIVITY ENHANCEMENT; REDUCED SULFUR COMPOUNDS; REDUCTIVE DECHLORINATION; SULFIDATION TREATMENT; ZERO-VALENT IRON NANOPARTICLES;

IRON;

HYDROCARBON; HYDROGEN; IRON; IRON NANOPARTICLE; REAGENT; SODIUM DITHIONITE; SODIUM SULFIDE; SODIUM THIOSULFATE; SULFUR DERIVATIVE; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; WATER; NANOPARTICLE; WATER POLLUTANT;

BIODEGRADATION; CHEMICAL ALTERATION; DECHLORINATION; IRON NANOPARTICLE; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; REDUCTION; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECHLORINATION; DEGRADATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; RATE CONSTANT; REDUCTION; SULFIDATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; SYNTHESIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER TREATMENT; HALOGENATION; WATER POLLUTANT;

HALOGENATION; IRON; NANOPARTICLES; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 85003544967     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b03997     Document Type: Article

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