Opportunities for Environmental Applications of Marine Biotechnology Proceedings of the October 5-6, 1999, Workshop (2000) / Chapter Skim
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Rapporteur Comments on the Bioremediation Session
Rapporteur Comments on the Bioremediation Session
Pages 161-168
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Bioremediation has the advantage that when the microbes have done what they can do to organic compounds, the organic compounds are usually essentially completely eliminated. That is not always true, but at least it is the major process that goes on in the bioremediation of organic compounds.
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, but there is an obvious opportunity for developing sensitive molecular probes that will assess microbial responses directly.
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requires initial anaerobic reductive dehalogenation followed by aerobic degradation. If one made currently anaerobic-contaminated sediments aerobic, one might well speed up the degradation of some organic contaminants, but at the potential expense of mobilizing currently immobilized metals and slowing reductive degradation processes.
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The presentations principally dealt with organic compounds, and the great thing about organic compounds is that eventually they are converted to CO2 and water and to all intents and purposes disappear. Inorganic contaminants can only be moved or collected; and although there are several technologies for handling inorganic contaminants in wastewater (Krishnan and others 1993)
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Deweerd KA. 1998 Brominated biphenyls prime extensive microbial reductive dehalogenation of aroclor 1260 in Housatonic River sediment.
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1995 Deleterious effects from accidental spillages of vegetable oils. Spill Sci Technol Bull 2:187-191.
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1999a Bioremediation of a marine oil spill in the Arctic. In: In Situ Bioremediation of Petroleum Hydrocarbon and Other Organic Compounds.
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