Use of silicate minerals for pH control during reductive dechlorination of chloroethenes in batch cultures of different microbial consortia

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 3858-3867

  Lacroix, Elsa ^a,b   Brovelli, Alessandro ^a   Barry, D A ^a   Holliger, Christof ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b Laboratory for Environmental Biotechnology   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; BATCH CELL CULTURE; BIOREMEDIATION; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DISSOLUTION; ETHYLENE; GROUNDWATER; OLIVINE; REACTION KINETICS; REDOX REACTIONS;

BACTERIAL COMMUNITY; DEHALOCOCCOIDES SPP; DISSOLUTION PRODUCTS; GEOCHEMICAL MODELING; IN-SITU BIOREMEDIATION; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; REDUCTIVE DECHLORINATION; SULFUROSPIRILLUM SPP;

DECHLORINATION;

ACIDIFICATION; BACTERIUM; BIOREMEDIATION; DECHLORINATION; ETHYLENE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PH; SILICATE;

BUFFER; SILICATE; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE;

BATCH CELL CULTURE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; PH;

BATCH CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; BIOTRANSFORMATION; BUFFERS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; SILICATES; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE;

EID: 84902169414     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00493-14     Document Type: Article

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