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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
卷 44, 期 16, 页码 6167-6173出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/es101179f
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- DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) [GR971/18-1, 18-3]
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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