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Bioremediation and natural attenuation process fundamentals and mathematical models /

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Main Author: Alvarez, Pedro J. J.
Other Authors: Illman, Walter A. (Walter Arthur)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, N.J. [Nueva Jersey, Estados Unidos] : Wiley, c2006.
Series:Environmental science and technology
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction to bioremediation
  • Geochemical attenuation mechanisms
  • Biodegradation principles
  • Fundamentals of groundwater flow and contaminant transport processes
  • Fate and transport equations and analytical models for natural attenuation
  • Numerical modeling of contaminant transport, transformation and degradation processes
  • Field and laboratory methods to determine parameters for modelling contaminant fate and transport in groundwater
  • Bioremedation technologies
  • Performance assessment and demonstration of bioremediation and natural attenuation
  • Appendix A. Chemical properties of various organic compounds
  • Appendix B. Free energy and thermodynamic feasibility of chemical and biochemical reactions
  • Appendix C. Commonly used numerical groundwater flow and solute transport codes.