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S. Johana Grajales-Mesa and Grzegorz Malina
This study evaluates, under field conditions, the efficiency of a permeable reactive barrier (PRB) with compost and brown coal to remove trichloroethylene (TCE) (109 µg/L) from contaminated groundwater. Three stainless steel boxes (1.2 × 0.5 × 0.5 m) wit...
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Tingting Fan, Wenbo Shen, Da Ding, Xiang Wang, Yuanchao Zhao, Changlong Wei, Xin Song, Shengtian Zhang, Decheng Jin and Jinzhong Wan
Less attention was paid to the remediation of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) contaminated soil treated by thermal conduction heating (TCH) coupled with chemical oxidization. In this study, the lab-scale remediation experiments of trichloroethylene (TC...
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Eric D. Swain, James E. Landmeyer, Michael A. Singletary and Shannon E. Provenzano
Past waste-disposal activities at Naval Air Station Whiting Field (NASWF) have led to elevated concentrations of contaminants in the underlying sand and gravel aquifer. Contaminants include two of the most commonly detected chemicals in groundwater in ma...
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Geumhee Yun, Sunhwa Park, Young Kim and Kyungjin Han
Slow-releasing tablets combined with persulfate acting as an oxidant and ferrous iron acting as an activator were manufactured for in situ chemical oxidation. The trichloroethylene (TCE) removal efficiency according to the molar ratio of the oxidizer and...
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Dan Zhong, Fu He, Wencheng Ma, Yixing Yuan and Ziqiang Wang
The present work intended to use goethite, one of the main compositions of pipe deposit, to combine with H2O2 to degrade TCE or disinfect drinking water. Goethite exhibited excellent degradation performance for TCE, outstanding inactivation ability for P...
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Brandon M. Owen and Neha Sunger
In this study, we conducted a worst-case risk assessment for children?s health from ingestion exposure to water sources in two densely populated counties of the Piedmont province of New Jersey?Hunterdon and Mercer counties. Carcinogenic and non-carcinoge...
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Birgit Claus Henn, Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger, Allegra Denehy, Marcie Randall, Nichole Cordon, Bilin Basu, Brian Caccavale, Stefanie Covino, Ravi Hanumantha, Kevin Longo, Ariel Maiorano, Spring Pillsbury, Gabrielle Rigutto, Kelsey Shields, Marianne Sarkis and Timothy J. Downs
Half of U.S. drinking water comes from aquifers, and very shallow ones (<20 feet to water table) are especially vulnerable to anthropogenic contamination. We present the case of Holliston, a Boston, Massachusetts suburb that draws its drinking water from...
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Wen-Tien Tsai
In the past decades, hazardous air pollutants (HAPs), so-called air toxics or toxic air pollutants, have been detected in the atmospheric air at low concentration levels, causing public concern about the adverse effect of long-term exposure to HAPs on hu...
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Morris L. Maslia, Mustafa M. Aral, Perri Z. Ruckart and Frank J. Bove
A U.S. government health agency conducted epidemiological studies to evaluate whether exposures to drinking water contaminated with volatile organic compounds (VOC) at U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, were associated with increased he...
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