scholarly journals Microbial Community and in situ Bioremediation of Groundwater by Nitrate Removal in the Zone of a Radioactive Waste Surface Repository

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexey V. Safonov ◽  
Tamara L. Babich ◽  
Diyana S. Sokolova ◽  
Denis S. Grouzdev ◽  
Tatiyana P. Tourova ◽  
...  
Author(s):  
Pooja Sharma ◽  
Ashutosh Kumar Pandey ◽  
Sang-Hyoun Kim ◽  
Surendra Pratap Singh ◽  
Preeti Chaturvedi ◽  
...  

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
pp. 1060-1070 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meiying Xu ◽  
Wei-Min Wu ◽  
Liyou Wu ◽  
Zhili He ◽  
Joy D Van Nostrand ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles J. Paradis ◽  
John I. Miller ◽  
Ji-Won Moon ◽  
Sarah J Spencer ◽  
Lauren Michelle Lui ◽  
...  

Microbial-mediated nitrate removal from groundwater is widely recognized as the predominant mechanism for nitrate attenuation in contaminated aquifers and is largely dependent on the presence of a carbon-bearing electron donor. The repeated exposure of a natural microbial community to an electron donor can result in the sustained ability of the community to remove nitrate; this phenomenon has been clearly demonstrated at the laboratory scale. However, in situ demonstrations of this ability are lacking. For this study, ethanol (electron donor) was repeatedly injected into a groundwater well (treatment) for six consecutive weeks to establish the sustained ability of a microbial community to remove nitrate. A second well (control) located up-gradient was not injected with ethanol during this time. The treatment well demonstrated strong evidence of sustained ability as evident by concomitant ethanol and nitrate removal and subsequent sulfate removal upon consecutive exposures. Both wells were then monitored for six additional weeks under natural (no injection) conditions. During the final week, ethanol was injected into both treatment and control wells. The treatment well demonstrated sustained ability as evident by concomitant ethanol and nitrate removal whereas the control did not. Surprisingly, the treatment well did not indicate a sustained and selective enrichment of a microbial community. These results suggested that the predominant mechanism(s) of sustained ability likely exist at the enzymatic- and/or genetic-levels. The results of this study demonstrated that the in situ ability of a microbial community to remove nitrate can be sustained in the prolonged absence of an electron donor. Moreover, these results implied that the electron-donor exposure history of nitrate-contaminated groundwater can play an important role nitrate attenuation.


2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 478-482
Author(s):  
Jamie Robinson ◽  
Russell Thomas ◽  
Steve Wallace ◽  
Paddy Daly ◽  
Robert Kalin

2013 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 283-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Nishizaki ◽  
H. Miyamae ◽  
S. Ichikawa ◽  
K. Izumiya ◽  
T. Takano ◽  
...  

Our effort for decontamination of radioactive cesium scattered widely by nuclear accident in March 2011 in Fukushima, Japan has been described. Radioactive cesium scattered widely in Japan has been accumulating in arc or plasma molten-solidified ash in waste incinerating facilities up to 90,000 Bq/kg of the radioactive waste. Water rinsing of the ash resulted in dissolution of cesium ions together with high concentrations of potassium and sodium ions. Although potassium inhibits the adsorption of cesium on zeolite, we succeeded to precipitate cesium by in-situ formation of ferric ferrocyanide and iron rust in the radioactive filtrate after rinsing of the radioactive ash with water. Because the regulation of no preservation of any kind of cyanide substances, cesium was separated from the precipitate consisting of cesium-captured ferric ferrocyanide and ferric hydroxide in diluted NaOH solution and subsequent filtration gave rise to the potassium-free radioactive filtrate. Cesium was captured by zeolite from the potassium-free radioactive filtrate. The amount of this final radioactive waste of zeolite was significantly lower than that of the arc-molten-solidified ash.


2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Hatzinger ◽  
Jay Diebold

2000 ◽  
Vol 42 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 371-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.A. Puhakka ◽  
K.T. Järvinen ◽  
J.H. Langwaldt ◽  
E.S. Melin ◽  
M.K. Männistö ◽  
...  

This paper reviews ten years of research on on-site and in situ bioremediation of chlorophenol contaminated groundwater. Laboratory experiments on the development of a high-rate, fluidized-bed process resulted in a full-scale, pump-and-treat application which has operated for several years. The system operates at ambient groundwater temperature of 7 to 9°C at 2.7 d hydraulic retention time and chlorophenol removal efficiencies of 98.5 to 99.9%. The microbial ecology studies of the contaminated aquifer revealed a diverse chlorophenol-degrading community. In situ biodegradation of chlorophenols is controlled by oxygen availability, only. Laboratory and pilot-scale experiments showed the potential for in situ aquifer bioremediation with iron oxidation and precipitation as a potential problem.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Shamsul Haq ◽  
Asma Absar Bhatti ◽  
Suhail Ahmad Bhat ◽  
Shafat Ahmad Mir ◽  
Ansar ul Haq

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