Bioremediation and Natural Attenuation / Environmental Science and Technology: A Wiley-Interscience Series of Texts and Monographs (PDF)

A groundbreaking text and professional resource on natural
attenuation technology

Natural attenuation is rapidly becoming a widely used approach
to manage groundwater and soil contamination by hazardous
substances in petroleum-product releases and leachate from
hazardous waste sites and landfills. This book provides, under one
cover, the current methodologies needed by groundwater scientists
and engineers in their efforts to evaluate subsurface contamination
problems, to estimate risk to human health and ecosystems through
mathematical models, and to design and formulate appropriate
remediation strategies.

Incorporating the authors' extensive backgrounds as educators,
researchers, and consultants in environmental biotechnology and
hydrogeology, the text emphasizes new concepts and recent advances
in the science, including:

* Quantification of the role of microbes in natural
attenuation

* Biodegradation and chemical transformation principles

* Immobilization and phase change

* Biotransformation mechanisms

* Groundwater flow and contaminant transport

* Analytical models for contaminant transport and reaction
processes

* Numerical modeling of contaminant transport, transformation,
and degradation

Detailed descriptions of fundamental processes, characterization
approaches, and analytical and numerical methods tied to relevant
real-world applications make Bioremediation and Natural
Attenuation: Process Fundamentals and Mathematical Models both
a timely course text in hydrogeology and environmental engineering
and a valuable reference for anyone in the groundwater or risk
assessment professions.