Surfactants and bacterial bioremediation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon contaminated soil-unlocking the targets

Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 78-124

  Elliot, Roy ^a   Singhal, Naresh ^a   Swift, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

bioavailability; bioremediation; biosurfactant; degradation pathway; PAHs

Indexed keywords

BIO SURFACTANT; BIO-SURFACTANTS; BIOAVAILABILITY; CONTAMINATED SITES; CONTAMINATED SOILS; DEGRADATION PATHWAY; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; NON-AQUEOUS; PAHS; SOIL PARTICLES; SYNTHETIC SURFACTANTS;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIODEGRADATION; BIOMOLECULES; BIOREMEDIATION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DEGRADATION; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; SOIL POLLUTION; SOILS; TERNARY SYSTEMS;

SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS;

BIOSURFACTANT; NAPHTHALENE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; SURFACTANT;

BIOAVAILABILITY; BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; PAH; SOIL POLLUTION; SURFACTANT; TOXIC MATERIAL;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BIOAVAILABILITY; BIOREMEDIATION; CARBON SOURCE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL POLLUTION;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 78951489048     PISSN: 10643389     EISSN: 15476537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00102200802641798     Document Type: Article

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