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Coal Tar Contamination: Bioremediation and Bioavailability

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Resource Recovery, Confinement, and Remediation of Environmental Hazards

Part of the book series: The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications ((IMA,volume 131))

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Abstract

Development of accurate predictive models and rate expressions that mimic observed transport and biodegradation phenomena occurring in the field and in the laboratory are important tools for assessing the efficacy of bioremediation. Biotransformation rates obtained from microscale laboratory experiments are typically not commensurate with rates obtained from field-scale bioremediation systems. Generally, field scale biotransformation rates are an order of magnitude or more slower than those observed in the laboratory.1,2 The differences observed can be attributed to scale dependent rate processes such as sorption to natural geosorbents, mass transport limitations and macroscale heterogeneities.

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  1. RKK Consulting Engineers, 4560 South Boulevard, Virginia Beach, VA, 23542, USA

    Peter C. D’Adamo

  2. Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, 21218, USA

    Edward J. Bouwer & William P. Ball

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260, USA

    John Chadam

  2. Center for Biofilm Engineering, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, 59717-3980, USA

    Al Cunningham (CBE Industry/Education Initiatives Coordinator) (CBE Industry/Education Initiatives Coordinator)

  3. Institute for Scientific Computation, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843-3404, USA

    Richard E. Ewing

  4. Laboratory for Computational Geodynamics, Chemistry Building, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA

    Peter Ortoleva

  5. Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics (TICAM), The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA

    Mary Fanett Wheeler

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D’Adamo, P.C., Bouwer, E.J., Ball, W.P. (2002). Coal Tar Contamination: Bioremediation and Bioavailability. In: Chadam, J., Cunningham, A., Ewing, R.E., Ortoleva, P., Wheeler, M.F. (eds) Resource Recovery, Confinement, and Remediation of Environmental Hazards. The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, vol 131. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0037-3_12

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