Removal of mercury from mercury-contaminated sediments using a combined method of chemical leaching and volatilization of mercury by bacteria

Biodegradation

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 443-447

  Nakamura, Kunihiko ^a,b   Hagimine, Megumi ^b   Sakai, Masashi ^c   Furukawa, Kensuke ^b,d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MINAMATA DISEASE   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU SANGYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mercury; Mercury sulfide; Mercury volatilizing bacteria; Minamata Bay

Indexed keywords

MERCURY CONTAMINATED SEDIMENTS; MERCURY SULFIDE; MERCURY VOLATILIZING BACTERIA;

BACTERIA; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; LEACHING; MERCURY (METAL); SEDIMENTS; VAPORIZATION;

SOIL POLLUTION;

MERCURY; MERCURY DERIVATIVE; MERCURY SULFIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT; LEACHING; MERCURY; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; VOLATILIZATION;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIODEGRADATION; HEAVY METAL POISONING; JAPAN; LEACHING; MERCURIALISM; NONHUMAN; POLLUTANT; SEDIMENT; VOLATILIZATION; WATER CONTAMINATION;

BACTERIA; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; JAPAN; MERCURY; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; VOLATILIZATION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0033303685     PISSN: 09239820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008329511391     Document Type: Article

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