Groundwater remediation by an in situ biobarrier: A bench scale feasibility test for methyl tert-butyl ether and other gasoline compounds

Journal of Hazardous Materials

Volumn 167, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 545-552

  Saponaro, Sabrina ^a   Negri, Marco ^b   Sezenna, Elena ^a   Bonomo, Luca ^a   Sorlini, Claudia ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biological treatment; Gasoline; Groundwater; Reactive barrier; Remediation

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC CONDITION; AEROBIC PHASE; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BATCH TESTS; BIOBARRIER; BIOLOGICAL BARRIER; BIOLOGICAL TREATMENT; COLUMN TEST; COMETABOLISM; DESIGN PARAMETERS; FEASIBILITY TESTS; FIRST ORDER KINETIC; GASOLINE COMPOUNDS; GROUND WATER REMEDIATION; HIGH MOBILITY; HIGH WATER; IN-SITU; LONGITUDINAL DISPERSIVITY; METHYL TERT BUTYL ETHER; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PURE CULTURE; REACTIVE BARRIER; REMOVAL PROCESS; RETARDATION FACTORS; STATIONARY CONCENTRATIONS; TERT-BUTYL ALCOHOLS;

ALCOHOLS; AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; BENZENE; BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIODEGRADATION; BIOMASS; DEGRADATION; DISSOLUTION; ETHERS; ETHYLBENZENE; GASOLINE; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROGEOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; OXYGEN; REMEDIATION; SOIL POLLUTION; SOIL TESTING; SOILS; SORPTION; TESTING; TOLUENE; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL; XYLENE;

WATER TREATMENT;

BENZENE; ETHYLBENZENE; GASOLINE; GROUND WATER; OXYGEN; TERT BUTYL METHYL ETHER; TOLUENE; XYLENE;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; BTEX; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISPERSIVITY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GROUNDWATER; METABOLISM; MTBE; OXIC CONDITIONS; REACTION KINETICS; REACTIVE BARRIER;

AEROBIC METABOLISM; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOMASS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FEASIBILITY STUDY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT;

AEROBIOSIS; BENZENE; BENZENE DERIVATIVES; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GASOLINE; METHYL ETHERS; TOLUENE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; XYLENES;

EID: 66149173213     PISSN: 03043894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2009.01.026     Document Type: Article

References (43)

1. Energy Information Administration, Petroleum: An Energy Profile, Publication nr. DOE/EIA-0545(91), 1999.
2. European Fuel Oxygenates Association, MTBE Resource Guide, 2000.
3. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, MTBE fact sheet #3-Use and distribution of MTBE and ethanol, Publication nr. EPA 510-F-97-016, 1998.
4. Fischer A., Muller M., and Klasmeier J. Determination of Henry's law constant for methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) at groundwater temperatures. Chemosphere 54 (2004) 689-694
5. Squillace P.J., Zogorski J.S.W.G., Wilber W.G.C.V., and Price C.V. Preliminary assessment of occurrence and possible of MTBE in groundwater in the United States 1993-1994. Environ. Sci. Technol. 30 (1996) 1721-1730
6. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Chemical summary for methyl-tert-butyl ether, Publication nr. EPA 749-F-94-017a, 1994.
7. Bureau of Toxic Substance Assessment, New York State Department of Health, Gasoline oxygenates in drinking water, 2006.
8. U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, MTBE in drinking water, Publication nr. 31-007-0904, 2004.
9. Schmidt T., Haderlein S., and Zwank L.S. Does the fuel oxygenate methyl-tert-butyl ether (MTBE) threaten the ground water?. EAWAG News 53 (2002) 18-20
10. American Petroleum Institute, Technical protocol for evaluating the natural attenuation of MtBE, Publication nr. 4761, 2007.
11. Fiorenza S., and Rifai H. Review of MTBE biodegradation and bioremediation. Bioremediation J. 7 2003 (2003) 1-35
12. Schmidt T.C., Schirmer M., Weiß H., and Haderlein S.B. Microbial degradation of methyl tert-butyl ether and tert-butyl alcohol in the subsurface. J. Contam. Hydrol. 70 (2004) 173-203
13. Lyew D., Guiot S.R., Monota F., and Fayolle-Guichard F. Comparison of different support materials for their capacity to immobilize Mycobacterium austroafricanum IFP 2012 and to adsorb MtBE. Enzym. Microb. Technol. 40 (2007) 1524-1530
14. Mo K., Lora C.O., Wanken A.E., Javanmardian M., Yang X., and Kulpa C.F. Biodegradation of methyl tert-butyl ether by pure bacterial cultures. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 47 (1997) 69-72
15. Pruden A.M.Y., Suidan M.T., Venosa A.D., and Wilson G.J. Biodegradation of methyl tert-butyl ether under various substrate conditions. Environ. Sci. Technol. 35 (2001) 4235-4241
16. Hyman M., Kwon P., Williamson K., and O'Reilly K. Cometabolism of MTBE by alkane-utilizing microorganisms. In: Wickramanayake G.B., and Hinchee R.E. (Eds). Proceedings at the First International Conference on Remediation of Chlorinated and Recalcitrant Compounds (1998), Battelle Press, Columbus 321-325
17. Morales M., Velàzquez E., Jan J., Revah S., Gonzàlez U., and Razo-Flores E. Methyl tert-butyl ether biodegradation by microbial consortia obtained from soil samples of gasoline-polluted sites in Mexico. Biotechnol. Lett. 26 (2004) 269-275
18. Koenigsberg S., Sandefur C., Mahaffey W., Deshusses M., and Fortin N. Peroxygen mediated bioremediation of MTBE. In: Alleman B.C., and Leeson A. (Eds). Proceedings at the Fifth International In Situ and On-Site Bioremediation Symposium (1999), Battelle Press, Columbus 13-18
19. Johnson E.L., Smith C.A., O'Reilly K., and Hyman M. Induction of methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE)-oxidizing activity in Mycobacterium vaccae JOB5 by MTBE. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70 (2004) 1023-1030
20. T. Legler, L. Balser, C. Koester, W. Wilson, Evaluation and optimization of MTBE biodegradation in aquifers-Final Report, Publication nr. UCRL-TR-202381, 2004.
21. Thomson J.A.M. Intrinsic remediation of MTBE-an update. Contam. Soil Sed. Water Spring (2001) 61-63
22. Deeb R.A., Hu H.-Y., and Hanson J.R. Substrate Interactions in BTEX and MTBE mixtures by an MTBE-degrading isolate. Environ. Sci. Technol. 35 (2001) 312-317
23. Deeb R.A., Scow K.M., and Alvarez-Cohen L. Aerobic MTBE biodegradation: an examination of past studies, current challenges and future research directions. Biodegradation 11 (2000) 171-186
24. Church C.D., Pankow J.F., and Tratnyek P.G. Hydrolysis of tert-butyl formate: kinetics, products, and implications for the environmental impact of methyl tert-butyl ether. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 18 (1999) 2789-2796
25. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Technologies for treating MtBE and other fuel oxygenates, Publication nr. EPA 542-R-04-009, 2004.
26. Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society, NATO/CCMS pilot study - evaluation of demonstrated and emerging technologies for the treatment of contaminated land and groundwater (Phase III) - treatment walls and permeable reactive barriers, Publication nr. EPA 542-R-98-003, 1998.
27. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, MTBE treatment profiles, 2007, http://www.cluin.org/products/mtbe/.
28. Vesela L., Nemecek J., Siglova M., and Kubal M. The biofiltration permeable reactive barrier: practical experience from Synthesia. Int. Biodeterior. Biodegrad. 58 (2006) 224-230
29. US Naval Facilities Engineering Command, A practical approach to the design, monitoring, and optimization of in situ MTBE aerobic biobarriers, Publication nr. TR-2257-ENV, 2004.
30. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Permeable reactive barrier-technologies for contaminant remediation, Publication nr. EPA/600/R-98/125, 1998.
31. Sezenna E., Saponaro S., Puricelli S., and Bonomo L. Modeling of biobarriers for MTBE contaminated groundwater remediation. In: Petrangeli Papini M. (Ed). Proceedings at the Third International Symposium on Permeable Reactive Barriers and Reactive Zones. Roma (2007)
32. Perfect E., Sukop M.C., and Haszler G.R. Prediction of dispersivity for undisturbed soil columns from water retention parameters. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 66 (2002) 696-701
33. R.B. Sharpe, Evaluation of the effects of sand size, size distribution, and length scale on longitudinal dispersivity, PhD dissertation, University of New Brunswick, Canada, 2002.
34. R.J. Irwin, Environmental contaminants encyclopedia-MTBE entry, National Park Service, Water Resources Divisions-Water Operations Branch, Fort Collins, 1997.
35. Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology, AQUASIM 2.0 - User Manual - Computer program for the identification and simulation of aquatic systems, Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology, Dübendorf, 1998.
36. American Society for Testing & Materials, Standard practice for the prediction of contaminant adsorption on gac in aqueous system using rapid small scale column tests, Publication nr. D 6586-03, 2003.
37. Bear J. Dynamics of Fluids in Porous Media (1972), American Elsevier Publishing Company, New York
38. Wilson G.J., Pruden A., Suidan M.T., and Venosa A.D. Biodegradation kinetics of MTBE in laboratory batch and continuous flow reactors. J. Environ. Eng. September (2002) 824-829
39. Bielefeldt A.R., McEachern C., and Illangasekare T. Hydrodynamic changes in sand due to biogrowth on naphthalene and decane. J. Environ. Eng. -ASCE 128 (2002) 51-59
40. oc values for deuterated benzene, toluene, and ethylbenzene, and application to ground water contamination studies. Chemosphere 35 (1997) 2215-2224
41. Acuna-Askar K., Englande A.J., Hu C., and Jin G. Methyl Tert-Butyl Ether (MTBE) biodegradation in batch and continuous upflow fixed-biofilm reactors. Water Sci. Technol. 42 5-6 (2000) 153-161
42. Air Force Center for Engineering and the Environment, Methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE)-its movement and fate in the environment and potential for natural attenuation, Publication nr. 022/733939/18.doc, 1999.
43. Wilson R.D., Mackay D.M., and Scow K.M. In situ MTBE biodegradation supported by diffusive oxygen release. Environ. Sci. Technol. 36 (2002) 190-199