Evaluating TCE Abiotic and Biotic Degradation Pathways in a Permeable Reactive Barrier Using Compound Specific Isotope Analysis

Compound-specific isotope analysis

The isotopic composition, e.g. 14C/12C, 13C/12C, 2H/1H, 15N/14N and 18O/16O, of matter elements is heterogeneous. It is ruled by physical, chemical and biological mechanisms. Isotopes thus be enable to follow the fate of mineral and organic compounds during biogeochemical transformations. The determination of the isotopic composition of organic substances occurring at trace level into very comp...

Abiotic and Biotic Pathways in Chlorinated Solvent Natural Attenuation

Abiotic degradative pathways are often overlooked when evaluating natural attenuation at chlorinated solvent sites. Yet, at many sites, significant degradation of parent compounds such as 1,1,1-TCA, PCE and TCE is observed without the corresponding accumulation of daughter products, a sure indication of abiotic reactions. The problems in integrating abiotic processes into MNA are how to prove t...

Evaluation of Permeable Reactive Barrier Performance

Improvement of lignans production in hairy root culture of Linum mucronatum using abiotic and biotic elicitors .

Elicitors could be used as the enhancer of plant secondary-metabolite synthesis and could play an important role in biosynthetic pathways of important medicinal compounds. The present study investigated the effect of abiotic elicitor (fungal extract of Fusarium graminearum) and two abiotic elicitors (methyl jasmonate and salicylic acid) at different concentrations in 18- and 30-day-old cultures...

Measuring carbon isotope ratios of microphytobenthos using compound-specific stable isotope analysis of phytol

Carbon stable isotope analysis is one of the most common methods for validating theories about the role microphytobenthos (MPB) plays in estuarine food webs. However, difficulties extracting MPB from sediments to determine a pure isotope signature have hampered such studies. We have developed compound-specific isotope analysis (CSIA) of phytol δ13C (δCphytol) as an accurate proxy for δ 13C of b...