Estimating bioaugmentation efficacy of TCE dechlorination using long-term field well-to-well tests in a highly recharged and TCE-contaminated aquifer
- Authors
- Han, Kyungjin; Park, Sunhwa; Hong, Uijeon; Yeum, Yuhoon; Kwon, Sooyoul; Kim, Young
- Issue Date
- 2019
- Publisher
- TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
- Keywords
- Anaerobic reductive dechlorination; TCE; TCFE; FMB; mass distribution
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND HEALTH PART A-TOXIC/HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING, v.54, no.3, pp.208 - 218
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND HEALTH PART A-TOXIC/HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
- Volume
- 54
- Number
- 3
- Start Page
- 208
- End Page
- 218
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/68922
- DOI
- 10.1080/10934529.2018.1544800
- ISSN
- 1093-4529
- Abstract
- This study demonstrates a combined field method accurately assessing the extent of trichloroethylene (TCE) reductive dechlorination activity and the mass fraction of its by-products. A combined method of injecting a known concentration of 1,1,2-trichloro-2-fluoroethene (TCFE) as a TCE bio-surrogate and a data processing technique of forced mass balance (FMB), considering the sorption effect on the mass fraction of chloroethene was evaluated by performing soil column and field bioaugmentation tests. In the soil column test, the FMB resulted in the mass fraction of 6% TCE, 48.3% cis-1,2-dichloroethene, 18.5% vinyl chloride and 27.2% ethylene. In the field bioaugmentation test, TCFE showed equivalent dechlorination pathways of TCE. The mass fractions estimated by FMB were very similar to those observed in the soil column bioaugmentation tests: 4.5% TCFE, 57.1% 1,2-dichloro-1-fluoroethene, 12% 1-chloro-1-fluoroethene and 26.4% fluoroethene (FE). The FMB method gave approximate to 50% higher mass fraction for more chlorinated ethenes (i.e., TCFE) and approximate to 10% lower mass fraction of less chlorinated ethenes (i.e., FE) than those considering only the aqueous concentrations of chlorofluoroethenes. A combined method of TCFE and FMB that could accurately estimate both the extent of dechlorination activities and mass distribution of TCE reductive dechlorination would be highly useful.
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