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Book Temporal Changes in the Microbial Community of a PAH contaminated Soil During Bench top Bioremediation

Download or read book Temporal Changes in the Microbial Community of a PAH contaminated Soil During Bench top Bioremediation written by Caroline Gayle Rose and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Biodegradation and Bioremediation

Download or read book Biodegradation and Bioremediation written by Ajay Singh and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-06-21 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diverse metabolic capabilities of microorganisms and their interactions with hazardous organic and inorganic compounds have long been recognized. Microbial processes are environmentally compatible and can be integrated with non-biological processes to detoxify, degrade and immobilize environmental contaminants. Bioremediation, the application of biological methods, has been used successfully for soil remediation. For this volume, a number of experts from universities, government laboratories and industry, share their specialist knowledge in environmental microbiology and biotechnology. Chapters dealing with microbiological, biochemical and molecular aspects of biodegradation and bioremediation cover numerous topics, including: bioavailability, biodegradation of various pollutants, microbial community dynamics, properties and engineering of important biocatalysts, and methods for monitoring bioremediation processes.

Book Rhizomicrobiome Dynamics in Bioremediation

Download or read book Rhizomicrobiome Dynamics in Bioremediation written by Vivek Kumar and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intensified agrarian and industrial activity has led to earth's soil and groundwater resources becoming polluted with hazardous materials. Bioremediation delivers a green technology using dynamics of living organisms, typically bacteria, fungi, microalgae and also plants to eliminate contaminants from ecosystem. This biological know-how is not only cost-effective compared to conventional physico-chemical approaches, but also very successful and is being employed in the field. This book focuses on important issues for several critical and common environmental pollutants, resulting in a compilation having recent updates on the bioremediation applications towards green and clean environment. This volume also describes updates on various novel approaches of bioremediation including nanotechnology, rhizomicrobiome technology, composting, metagenomics, and biosurfactants-based bioremediation. This volume is a resource for researchers, environmentalists, professionals and policy makers.

Book The Virginia Journal of Science

Download or read book The Virginia Journal of Science written by Ruskin Skidmore Freer and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Microbial Community Structure Changes in Three Petroleum contaminated Soils

Download or read book Microbial Community Structure Changes in Three Petroleum contaminated Soils written by Heather Locovare Nichols and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Virginia Journal of Science

Download or read book Virginia Journal of Science written by Ruskin Skidmore Freer and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bacterial Community Dynamics in a Petroleum Contaminated Land Treatment Unit Indicate a Dominant Role for Flavobacterium in Petroleum Hydrocarbon Degradation

Download or read book Bacterial Community Dynamics in a Petroleum Contaminated Land Treatment Unit Indicate a Dominant Role for Flavobacterium in Petroleum Hydrocarbon Degradation written by Christopher Wolff Kaplan and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soil at the Guadalupe Oil Field, contaminated with petroleum hydrocarbons in the C10-C32 range, was analyzed weekly to monitor bacterial community structure and dynamics. Using Terminal Restriction Fragment (TRF) analysis, it was determined that two bacterial phylotypes, Flavobacterium and Pseudomonas, were dominant over the course of the hydrocarbon degradation.

Book Bioremediation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons

Download or read book Bioremediation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons written by Ali Akbari and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Indigenous, cold-adapted, hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria have been frequently detected in soils from cold region sites suggesting bioremediation, as a cost-effective remediation technology is potentially viable for cleanup of contaminated sites in cold regions. Previous studies on bioremediation of petroleum hydrocarbons in cold regions have been conducted with coarse textured soils. However, fine-grained or clayey soils are commonly found in several cold regions. The overall objective of this research was to investigate the factors controlling biodegradation of aged, clayey petroleum hydrocarbon contaminated soils from a sub-arctic site, under relevant temperature regimes. The biodegradation rates and extents of petroleum hydrocarbons were investigated for a clayey site contaminated soil in four pilot scale biopiles maintained at 15°C. Non-volatile petroleum hydrocarbons (C16-C32) were biodegraded 24 to 38% under continuous aeration and with amendments of 17.5% or 23.5% moisture and also 17.5% moisture with 95 mg-N/ kg soil. In contrast, statistically significant biodegradation of the non-volatile hydrocarbon fraction was not observed in a biopile tank containing soils amended with 23.5% moisture content and 1340 mg-N/ kg soil. While a significant shift occurred in soil microbial community over 60 days in the biopile tank amended with 23.5% moisture only, there was no change in the microbial community of soil samples amended with a similar level of moisture and 1340 mg-N/ kg soil, indicating that high amounts of nitrogen amendment inhibited bioremediation.This study investigates the effect of diurnal temperature variations on the biodegradation of petroleum hydrocarbon contaminated soil typical for the site from northern Canada from which contaminated soils were obtained. The extents of biodegradation of petroleum hydrocarbons after 70 days, in systems incubated at temperatures varying between 5 °C to 15 °C daily (representative of daily high and low temperatures) were similar to systems incubated at constant temperature of 15 °C, and were significantly higher than systems incubated at 5 °C. The soil microbial community of systems with daily changes in temperatures between 5 °C to 15 °C was similar to those incubated at 15 °C, but significantly different than those incubated at 5 °C, based on both 16S rRNA and alkB gene analyses. The results suggest that the highest temperature (15 °C) to which the soil was frequently exposed to, determined the microbial community profile in the site soil, and periods of low temperatures did not reduce the overall biodegradation efficiency or the microbial community compared to that maintained solely at 15 °C.Experiments were conducted to investigate if hexadecane, a biodegradable but effectively insoluble hydrocarbon phase, was accessible to, and degraded by hydrocarbon degrading bacteria when the hexadecane-water interface was separated from the microbial culture by membranes with specific pore sizes. In these systems, bacteria were unable to degrade hexadecane when the membrane pore size was 0.4 μm or 3 μm, but was able to degrade hexadecane when separated by pore sizes of 12 μm. To investigate the implications of these results to aggregates from clayey and sandy soils, the in-situ aggregate micro-structure of representative soil aggregates from petroleum contaminated clayey soil and petroleum contaminated sandy soil were compared by micro-scale computed tomography (micro CT) imaging. The "bioaccessible porosity" defined as fraction of aggregate volume corresponding to pores larger than 4 μm was comparable in case of clayey (26-27%) and sandy (24%) aggregates." --

Book Hydrocarbon Biotechnology

Download or read book Hydrocarbon Biotechnology written by Wael Ahmed Ismail and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-11-24 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers environmentally friendly technical solutions that can be implemented to solve problems throughout the value chain of the fossil fuel industry. This new book presents an up-to date view of hydrocarbon microbiology and biotechnology, presented by experts around the world with interest in how our expanding understanding of hydrocarbonoclast ecology and physiology can translate to better tools for bioremediation, oil recovery, bio-upgrading of unconventional crudes, the development of biorefining technologies, and the production of hydrogen and electricity from hydrocarbon wastes. The common theme across the chapters in this book is an interest in how developing hydrocarbon biotechnologies may reduce our impact on the global environment. Written by eminent scientists from both academia and industry, the book starts with a historical perspective on hydrocarbon chemistry and formation, petroleum microbiology, and biotechnology. This is followed by a review of recent research developments in bioremediation and other biotechnologies for hydrocarbons, the principal constituents of petroleum and natural gas.

Book Remediation of Petroleum Contaminated Soils

Download or read book Remediation of Petroleum Contaminated Soils written by Eve Riser-Roberts and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book combines the results of current research with essential background material to provide complete, in-depth coverage of every aspect of in situ and ex situ bioremediation, as well as an extensive overview of the physical and chemical processes currently available for treating petroleum-contaminated soils. Critical information has been collected and assembled under one cover to provide a convenient reference for anyone who must contend with this worldwide problem. Remediation of Petroleum Contaminated Soils: Biological, Physical, and Chemical Processes describes how to optimize the biodegradation of petroleum hydrocarbons in soil-water systems. It reports on the susceptibility of various petroleum components to biodegradation by microorganisms, and considers all groups of microorganisms for their potential contributions. The book also deals with problem areas such as the transport of organisms, oxygen, or nutrients throughout the subsurface, as well as biodegradation of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and nonaqueous phase liquids (NAPLs). In addition, the book presents a variety of methods for monitoring bioremediation. This reference discusses current soil remediation processes and includes many innovative approaches. It also investigates means of controlling volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and leachate, and addresses methods for collecting and treating these secondary waste streams. The expansive coverage of this book will furnish readers with a wide range of options for developing treatment strategies and for customizing procedures for specific requirements.

Book A Field scale Approach to Link Microbial Community Structure and Function in a Petroleum Hydrocarbon contaminated Aquifer

Download or read book A Field scale Approach to Link Microbial Community Structure and Function in a Petroleum Hydrocarbon contaminated Aquifer written by Silvina Andrea Pombo and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Microbial Bioremediation   Biodegradation

Download or read book Microbial Bioremediation Biodegradation written by Maulin P. Shah and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-30 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Microbial or biological degradation has long been the subject of active concern, and the rapid expansion and growing sophistication of various industries in the last century has significantly increased the volume and complexity of toxic residues of wastes. These can be remediated by plants and microbes, either natural origin or adapted for a specific purpose, in a process known as bioremediation. The interest in microbial biodegradation of pollutants has intensified in recent years in an attempt to find sustainable ways to clean contaminated environments. These bioremediation and biotransformation methods take advantage of the tremendous microbial catabolic diversity to degrade, transform or accumulate a variety of compounds, such as hydrocarbons, polychlorinated biphenyls, polaromatic hydrocarbons pharmaceutical substances, radionuclides and metals. Unlike conventional methods, bioremediation does not physically disturb the site. This book describes the basic principles of biodegradation and shows how these principles are related to bioremediation. Authored by leading, international environmental microbiologists, it discusses topics such as aerobic biodegradation, microbial degradation of pollutants, and microbial community dynamics. It provides valuable insights into how biodegration processes work and can be utilised for pollution abatement, and as such appeals to researchers and postgraduate students as well as experts in the field of bioremediation.

Book Microbial Communities Associated with Oil Degradation in Nigerian Soils

Download or read book Microbial Communities Associated with Oil Degradation in Nigerian Soils written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, we investigated the degradation of crude oil by microbial communities i) in soils from a Nigerian river delta contaminated by oil spills, ii) in mesocosms of a landfarming experiment in Nigeria, and iii) in cultures during laboratory experiments. The microbial biodegradation of hydrocarbons shows great promise to clean oil spills. However, the composition and activities of soil microbial communities are very complex so we believe that it is important to investigate the behaviour of the microbial communities during oil degradation from different perspectives. Chapter 2 is a literature review where we describe the principal genes, enzymes and metabolic pathways that are essential for the aerobic degradation of aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons, including the degradation of PAHs. Chapter 3 is a methodological essay where we evaluate the effects of DNA extraction methods and DNA preservation solutions on the quality of microbial community profiling to prevent bias and to improve the preservation and extraction methods. In Chapter 4, we correlate the application of different bioremediation amendments in a large-scale landfarming experiment to oil-removal efficiencies and succession of the community profiles. In Chapter 5, we evaluate a laboratory-based passive-dosing approach in the biodegradation of oil molecules. In Chapter 6, we aimed at correlating the changes of the microbial community to environmental conditions and concentrations of spilt oil during a clean-up project in a Nigerian river delta with mangrove forests. In Chapter 7, we link the degradation of alkanes and PAH to changes in the bacterial community structures to identify key species in oil degradation.

Book In Situ Bioremediation of Ground Water and Geological Material

Download or read book In Situ Bioremediation of Ground Water and Geological Material written by Robert D. Norris and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1995-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a detailed background of the technologies available for the bioremediation of contaminated soil & ground water. Prepared for scientists, consultants, regulatory personnel, & others who are associated in some way with the restoration of soil & ground water at hazardous waste sites. Also provides insights to emerging technologies which are at the research level of formation, ranging from theoretical concepts, through bench scale inquiries, to limited field-scale investigations. 95 tables & figures.

Book Microbial Biotechnology in Environmental Monitoring and Cleanup

Download or read book Microbial Biotechnology in Environmental Monitoring and Cleanup written by Pankaj, and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pollutants are increasing day by day in the environment due to human interference. Thus, it has become necessary to find solutions to clean up these hazardous pollutants to improve human, animal, and plant health. Microbial Biotechnology in Environmental Monitoring and Cleanup is a critical scholarly resource that examines the toxic hazardous substances and their impact on the environment. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as pollution of microorganisms, phytoremediation, and bioremediation, this book is geared towards academics, professionals, graduate students, and practitioners interested in emerging techniques for environmental decontamination.