Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4432536 | Science of The Total Environment | 2008 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
Reactions involving iron play a major role in the environmental cycling of a wide range of important organic, inorganic and radioactive contaminants. Consequently, a range of environmental clean-up technologies have been proposed or developed which utilise iron chemistry to remediate contaminated land and surface and subsurface waters, e.g. the use of injected zero zero-valent iron nanoparticles to remediate organic contaminant plumes; the generation of iron oxyhydroxide-based substrates for arsenic removal from contaminated waters; etc. This paper reviews some of the latest iron-based technologies in contaminated land and groundwater remediation, their current state of development, and their potential applications and limitations.
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Authors
Andrew B. Cundy, Laurence Hopkinson, Raymond L.D. Whitby,