“…The addition of the synthetic ETM, 9,10-anthraquinone-2,6-disulfonate (AQDS), to an anoxic MRB-Fe(III) mineral suspension with a suitable electron donor greatly enhances the Fe(III) reduction rate and extent Zachara et al, 1998;Royer et al, 2002;Dong et al, 2003;Hernandez et al, 2004;Chacon et al, 2006;Kukkadapu et al, 2006;Behrends and van Cappellen, 2007;Jaisi et al, 2007;Coker et al, 2008;Cutting et al, 2009). AQDS is a widely used model ETM for environmental and contaminant redox transformations of diverse type (Curtis and Reinhard, 1994;Borch et al, 2005;Bhushan et al, 2006;Finneran, 2006, 2008;Zhang et al, 2007).…”