Microbial reductive dechlorination of trichloroethene to ethene with electrodes serving as electron donors without the external addition of redox mediators

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 85-91

  Aulenta, Federico ^a   Canosa, Andrea ^a   Reale, Priscilla ^a   Rossetti, Simona ^b   Panero, Stefania ^a   Majone, Mauro ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b WATER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bioelectrochemical; Cathode; Dechlorination; Ethene; Trichloroethene

Indexed keywords

BATCH EXPERIMENTS; BIOELECTROCHEMICAL; BIOPROCESSES; CARBON PAPER; CHLORINATED SOLVENT; DEHALOCOCCOIDES SPP; DICHLOROETHENE; ELECTRON DONORS; ETHENE; ETHENE FORMATION; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; EXTRACELLULAR ELECTRON TRANSFER; GEOBACTER; IN-SITU BIOREMEDIATION; MIDPOINT POTENTIALS; MIXED CULTURES; NATURALLY OCCURRING; POLARIZED ELECTRODES; PURE CULTURE; REDOX MEDIATORS; REDOX-ACTIVE; REDUCTIVE DECHLORINATION; TRICHLOROETHENE; VINYL CHLORIDES;

BACTERIA; BACTERIOLOGY; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CONDUCTIVE MATERIALS; CYCLIC VOLTAMMETRY; ELECTRODES; ELECTRONS; ETHYLENE; MICROBIAL ELECTRODES; POLLUTION; REACTION KINETICS; TRICHLOROETHYLENE;

DECHLORINATION;

ETHYLENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; VINYL CHLORIDE; ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE;

ADDITION LINE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; CYCLIC POTENTIOMETRY; DECHLORINATION; DEHALOCOCCOIDES; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTRODE; GEOBACTER; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CHLOROFLEXI; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY;

DEHALOCOCCOIDES; GEOBACTER LOVLEYI;

CHLOROFLEXI; ELECTRODES; ETHYLENES; GEOBACTER; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; VINYL CHLORIDE;

EID: 64749102025     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: 10970290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bit.22234     Document Type: Article

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