Remediation of polychlorinated biphenyl impacted sediment by concurrent bioaugmentation with anaerobic halorespiring and aerobic degrading bacteria

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 3807-3815

  Payne, Rayford B ^a   Fagervold, Sonja K ^b   May, Harold D ^c   Sowers, Kevin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC MICROORGANISMS; ANAEROBIC DECHLORINATION; CHLORINATED CONGENERS; CONTAMINATED SEDIMENT; GRANULATED ACTIVATED CARBONS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL (PCBS); REDUCTIVE DEHALOGENASES; SUSTAINABLE STRATEGIES;

ACTIVATED CARBON; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BIOREMEDIATION; DECHLORINATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENES; MICROORGANISMS; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; OXIC SEDIMENTS; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

AEROBIC BACTERIA;

ACTIVATED CARBON; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOREMEDIATION; COGENERATION; HARBOR; MESOCOSM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PCB; SEDIMENT POLLUTION;

AEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BURKHOLDERIA XENOVORANS; CHLORINATION; DECHLORINATION; MESOCOSM; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; NONHUMAN; SEDIMENT; WATER CONTAMINATION;

AEROBIOSIS; ANAEROBIOSIS; BALTIMORE; BIODEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL; BURKHOLDERIA; CHLOROFLEXI; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HALOGENATION; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYLS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BALTIMORE HARBOR; MARYLAND; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BURKHOLDERIA XENOVORANS;

EID: 84876207204     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es304372t     Document Type: Article

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