Testing In Situ Sulfate Reduction by H2 injection in a Bench-Scale Column Experiment

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 203, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 109-122

  Bilek, Felix ^a   Wagner, Stephan ^a  

^a Dresden Groundwater Research Centre   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autotrophic sulfate reduction; H2 gas sparging; Immobile zone; In situ remediation technology; Iron sulfide precipitation

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; IRON; MICROORGANISMS; REMEDIATION; SILICATES;

AUTOTROPHIC SULFATE REDUCTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GAS SPARGING; HYDRAULIC RETENTION TIME; IN-SITU REMEDIATION; INHOMOGENEOUS DISTRIBUTION; IRON SULFIDE; SUBSTRATE LIMITATION;

SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

ACID; FERROUS SULFIDE; GROUND WATER; HYDROGEN; IRON; IRON DERIVATIVE; IRON MONOSULFIDE; SILICATE; SULFATE; SULFUR DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUTOTROPHY; CALCULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION; ENVIRONMENT; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRESSURE; REDUCTION (CHEMISTRY); SEDIMENT; SOLUBILITY; SULFATE REDUCTION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 85014426855     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-009-9995-x     Document Type: Article

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