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    Isotopic fractionation by transverse dispersion: Flow-through microcosms and reactive transport modeling study.
        
        Environ. Sci. Technol. 44, 6167-6173 (2010)
    
    
    
				Flow-through experiments were carried out to investigate the role of transverse dispersion on the isotopic behavior of an organic compound during conservative and bioreactive transport in a homogeneous porous medium. Ethylbenzene was selected as model contaminant and a mixture of labeled (perdeuterated) and light isotopologues was continuously injected in a quasi two-dimensional flow-through system. We observed a significant fractionation of ethylbenzene isotopologues during conservative transport at steady state. This effect was particularly pronounced at the plume fringe and contrasted with the common assumption that physical processes only provide a negligible contribution to isotope fractionation. Under the experimental steady state conditions, transverse hydrodynamic dispersion was the only process that could have caused the observed fractionation. Therefore, the measured isotope ratios at the outlet ports were interpreted with different parameterizations of the transverse dispersion coefficient. A nonlinear compound-specific parameterization showed the best agreement with the experimental data. Successively, bioreactive experiments were performed in two subsequent stages: a first oxic phase, involving a single strain of ethylbenzene degraders and a second phase with aerobic and anaerobic (i.e., ethylbenzene oxidation coupled to nitrate reduction) degradation. Significant fractionation through biodegradation occurred exclusively due to the metabolic activity of the anaerobic degraders. We performed analytical and numerical reactive transport simulations of the different experimental phases which confirmed that both the effects of physical processes (diffusion and dispersion) and microbially mediated reactions have to be considered to match the observed isotopic fractionation behavior.
			
			
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        Publikationstyp
        Artikel: Journalartikel
    
 
    
        Dokumenttyp
        Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
    
 
     
    
    
        Schlagwörter
        Organic contaminants; Natural attenuation; Rayleigh equation; Porous-medium; Biodegradation; Carbon; Degradation; Aquifer; Diffusion; Quantification
    
 
     
    
    
        Sprache
        englisch
    
 
    
        Veröffentlichungsjahr
        2010
    
 
     
    
        HGF-Berichtsjahr
        2010
    
 
    
    
        ISSN (print) / ISBN
        0013-936X
    
 
    
        e-ISSN
        1520-5851
    
 
     
     
     
	     
	 
	 
    
        Zeitschrift
        Environmental Science & Technology
    
 
		
    
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	    Band: 44,  
	    Heft: 16,  
	    Seiten: 6167-6173 
	    
	    
	
    
 
  
         
        
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            ACS
        
 
        
            Verlagsort
            Washington, DC
        
 
	
         
         
         
         
         
	
         
         
         
    
         
         
         
         
         
         
         
    
        Begutachtungsstatus
        Peer reviewed
    
 
    
        Institut(e)
        Institute of Groundwater Ecology (IGOE)
    
 
    
        POF Topic(s)
        20403 - Sustainable Water Management
    
 
    
        Forschungsfeld(er)
        Environmental Sciences
    
 
    
        PSP-Element(e)
        G-504300-002
    
 
     
     	
    
        PubMed ID
        20704214
    
    
    
        Scopus ID
        77956541129
    
    
        Erfassungsdatum
        2010-10-08